my official evil ehm build thread. lots of pics and ****.



I need to thank some people who helped make this happen:



Jared at dc: I basically ended up buying all the parts on the "evil M" tab on their site. Hes a good dude. Sometimes hard to get a hold of but when you do he will try and help you any way he can. Thank you.



MeuroM: super cool guy. Originally got in touch with him to buy a vertical asa and a bolt and ended up with a whole lot more. Ill get to that later. This project couldn't have happened without him. Thank you.



Lufkon: the only guy who was like "yeah **** it Ill mill your body." when everybody else was hemming and hawing, or straight up out of business even though he had a newborn (or was it twin newborns) at home. Eye covers too. I might get in touch with him for another set of eye covers, don't need em but if I want to go a different direction with an accent kit or something hes the guy. Thank you.



Random guy on facebook by the name of Manny: dude put me in touch with the right person at the actual anno company doing my work, because of that I finally got my gun back. Thank you.



Lilly at custom metal finishing: WAAAAAAY cooler than the other manager Antoine, that guy is a dick head. She took the effort to look into some stuff for me when she could have legally just said "hes our customer, not you and there is nothing I can do about it. Thank you.



Now that that is out of the way, lets jump right into it. The whole process took me about a year from the raw body blank showing up at my house (early march of 2015) to yesterday when I had a fully finished gun in my hand to shoot.



Step 1: decide you want to build the coolest gun out there because you love aka and you are stupid. Check. Get a body from Jared. Check. Get a raw 14" javelin for it because you think its historically accurate or some ****. This was hurdle #1. Jared accidentally sent me a raw 12" jav, He doesnt have any more 14"s. So I send it back and get the evil ehm tool kit instead. That tool kit that Jared is selling was produced by MeuroM. Just saying.







Step 2: buying a basic 04 Viking, for parts. Even though I knew what I was getting myself into I didnt want to just open my wallet and break the bank. I thrive on finding deals and sometimes I buy things just because "you never see them that cheap." I paid $300 for the Viking with no barrel and could have potentially used the feed neck ($15), bolt ($40), ram cart ($100), tornado valve ($40), sidewinder ($90), detents ($12), Rail ($15) and asa ($30). Those prices are new prices. Go with, say, 75% of full value because they're used parts and you get about $250. I ended up not using the detents feed neck and bolt.











Step 3: mock up because I can. I was toying with the idea of using an alias clamshell or a gen4 frame. So I get the first one I see at a decent price, which is the gen 4 frame. I think its going to look good and struggle with the issue of tray or no tray and trying to figure out how it can work if I dont use one. I finally get an alias board and thats when it click that there is no ****ing way Im using this trigger frame. The tray would have to be in excess of 3/4" and that is a deal breaker.









I got in touch with MeuroM for a bolt and a vertical asa. I figured it would be easier than finding a cyborg vasa or something else to mod. the bolt out of my Viking did not have detent slots cut in it at all so I could have used it, but this was my first "if Im going to do it Im going to do it right." moment. MeuroM is a machinist and we get to talking, this is when I start to see that the gen 4 frame wont work and he's got parts laying around. Im trying to figure out what Im going to do with my Viking carcass. Its a bit of a niche market for half of an 11 year old gun but the parts have value none the less. It just so happens that he wants it. Win win. We hammer out a deal and MeuroM gives me: bolt, vasa, modified cyborg lpr, solenoid, modified F.E.P. quest frame, quest electronics (board with predator dm chip, battery harness, eyes) and some detent covers in case I decide to just run the gun blind. I give him the rest of the Viking (feed neck/bolt included, fbm trigger and I think tadao or virtue board in it) and an undisclosed amount of money. The gun was in decent shape but he didnt care because he just wanted some meat for his mill, when he got it back in working order. Seriously, this dude is awesome. He did not at the time have the capacity to mill my body though.









So now I'm here. Wishing I had something more than a brick to put it into.







This is where hurdle #2 happens. I try to find a machinist. All the usual channels have been ruled out for one reason or another. Elia, D.C., Tarantula. All either so swamped with work and life they're not taking a project like this or just straight up gone. I was also under the impression that lufkon was no longer in the mix either. I also don't exactly have the capital at the time so I am trying to trade my dm12 for milling. At the time dm12s were worth about what I was seeing people paid or were quoted for the work so I tried. I got in touch with a kid in Vegas who seemed on the level. Hes 19 or 20. Says he works at whatever machine shop and can draw up some designs for me. We come to an agreement because of my pbn feedback and the amount of people on facebook saying Im legit, that I would send him the body blank and when I got the finished product back he would get the dm12. At this point Im thinking **** it, hes in Vegas so I might as well gamble the $75 the body cost me to see if this dude is a piece of **** or not. The package goes out, he receives it. He tells me give him a few days to come up with some designs. So he texts me a week after he gets the body and says he accidentally deleted all the files. Whatever, just let me know when you've got something concrete for me. he tells me 2 or 3 days or tomorrow Ill have something probably 5 times whenever I asked for an update After that I got a week of random excuses on why theres no progress. After that I stop getting anything, hes no longer answering my calls and texts but he is still updating facebook and stuff. Turns out dude's a piece of ****, that's why they call it gambling.



I dont remember if I got in touch with lufkon or if he messaged me, but we started talking and I was tired of waiting on the kid in Vegas. I didn't give up on contacting him, I just started blasting him all over the place. By now I do have cash for the milling instead of needing to sell or trade my dm12. Lufkon and I talk about what I want done and he shows me some bodies he has done in the past. We talk about turn around time and eye covers and cost. He lives 20 minutes away from Destructive Customs, so he goes and picks up a new body and gets to work. Super professional and if I ever do another one he will be the first guy I ask. I wanted an ultra-light simple rounded tube design and thats exactly what I got.







OK, to start out this is going to be a long story, strap in boys and girls.I need to thank some people who helped make this happen:Jared at dc: I basically ended up buying all the parts on the "evil M" tab on their site. Hes a good dude. Sometimes hard to get a hold of but when you do he will try and help you any way he can. Thank you.MeuroM: super cool guy. Originally got in touch with him to buy a vertical asa and a bolt and ended up with a whole lot more. Ill get to that later. This project couldn't have happened without him. Thank you.Lufkon: the only guy who was like "yeah **** it Ill mill your body." when everybody else was hemming and hawing, or straight up out of business even though he had a newborn (or was it twin newborns) at home. Eye covers too. I might get in touch with him for another set of eye covers, don't need em but if I want to go a different direction with an accent kit or something hes the guy. Thank you.Random guy on facebook by the name of Manny: dude put me in touch with the right person at the actual anno company doing my work, because of that I finally got my gun back. Thank you.Lilly at custom metal finishing: WAAAAAAY cooler than the other manager Antoine, that guy is a dick head. She took the effort to look into some stuff for me when she could have legally just said "hes our customer, not you and there is nothing I can do about it. Thank you.Now that that is out of the way, lets jump right into it. The whole process took me about a year from the raw body blank showing up at my house (early march of 2015) to yesterday when I had a fully finished gun in my hand to shoot.Step 1: decide you want to build the coolest gun out there because you love aka and you are stupid. Check. Get a body from Jared. Check. Get a raw 14" javelin for it because you think its historically accurate or some ****. This was hurdle #1. Jared accidentally sent me a raw 12" jav, He doesnt have any more 14"s. So I send it back and get the evil ehm tool kit instead. That tool kit that Jared is selling was produced by MeuroM. Just saying.Step 2: buying a basic 04 Viking, for parts. Even though I knew what I was getting myself into I didnt want to just open my wallet and break the bank. I thrive on finding deals and sometimes I buy things just because "you never see them that cheap." I paid $300 for the Viking with no barrel and could have potentially used the feed neck ($15), bolt ($40), ram cart ($100), tornado valve ($40), sidewinder ($90), detents ($12), Rail ($15) and asa ($30). Those prices are new prices. Go with, say, 75% of full value because they're used parts and you get about $250. I ended up not using the detents feed neck and bolt.Step 3: mock up because I can. I was toying with the idea of using an alias clamshell or a gen4 frame. So I get the first one I see at a decent price, which is the gen 4 frame. I think its going to look good and struggle with the issue of tray or no tray and trying to figure out how it can work if I dont use one. I finally get an alias board and thats when it click that there is no ****ing way Im using this trigger frame. The tray would have to be in excess of 3/4" and that is a deal breaker.I got in touch with MeuroM for a bolt and a vertical asa. I figured it would be easier than finding a cyborg vasa or something else to mod. the bolt out of my Viking did not have detent slots cut in it at all so I could have used it, but this was my first "if Im going to do it Im going to do it right." moment. MeuroM is a machinist and we get to talking, this is when I start to see that the gen 4 frame wont work and he's got parts laying around. Im trying to figure out what Im going to do with my Viking carcass. Its a bit of a niche market for half of an 11 year old gun but the parts have value none the less. It just so happens that he wants it. Win win. We hammer out a deal and MeuroM gives me: bolt, vasa, modified cyborg lpr, solenoid, modified F.E.P. quest frame, quest electronics (board with predator dm chip, battery harness, eyes) and some detent covers in case I decide to just run the gun blind. I give him the rest of the Viking (feed neck/bolt included, fbm trigger and I think tadao or virtue board in it) and an undisclosed amount of money. The gun was in decent shape but he didnt care because he just wanted some meat for his mill, when he got it back in working order. Seriously, this dude is awesome. He did not at the time have the capacity to mill my body though.So now I'm here. Wishing I had something more than a brick to put it into.This is where hurdle #2 happens. I try to find a machinist. All the usual channels have been ruled out for one reason or another. Elia, D.C., Tarantula. All either so swamped with work and life they're not taking a project like this or just straight up gone. I was also under the impression that lufkon was no longer in the mix either. I also don't exactly have the capital at the time so I am trying to trade my dm12 for milling. At the time dm12s were worth about what I was seeing people paid or were quoted for the work so I tried. I got in touch with a kid in Vegas who seemed on the level. Hes 19 or 20. Says he works at whatever machine shop and can draw up some designs for me. We come to an agreement because of my pbn feedback and the amount of people on facebook saying Im legit, that I would send him the body blank and when I got the finished product back he would get the dm12. At this point Im thinking **** it, hes in Vegas so I might as well gamble the $75 the body cost me to see if this dude is a piece of **** or not. The package goes out, he receives it. He tells me give him a few days to come up with some designs. So he texts me a week after he gets the body and says he accidentally deleted all the files. Whatever, just let me know when you've got something concrete for me. he tells me 2 or 3 days or tomorrow Ill have something probably 5 times whenever I asked for an update After that I got a week of random excuses on why theres no progress. After that I stop getting anything, hes no longer answering my calls and texts but he is still updating facebook and stuff. Turns out dude's a piece of ****, that's why they call it gambling.I dont remember if I got in touch with lufkon or if he messaged me, but we started talking and I was tired of waiting on the kid in Vegas. I didn't give up on contacting him, I just started blasting him all over the place. By now I do have cash for the milling instead of needing to sell or trade my dm12. Lufkon and I talk about what I want done and he shows me some bodies he has done in the past. We talk about turn around time and eye covers and cost. He lives 20 minutes away from Destructive Customs, so he goes and picks up a new body and gets to work. Super professional and if I ever do another one he will be the first guy I ask. I wanted an ultra-light simple rounded tube design and thats exactly what I got.

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