Faux Ivory Grips

try coffee

hawg said:

Has anybody successfully stained them to look like aged ivory? I'm trying to stain mine with tea but it doesn't seem to be working.

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I use Feibing's alcohol based leather dye. Saddle brown is good. Keep applying coats to get the shade you want. A quick shot of clear coat helps keep the finish durable. These were Ruger white plastic grips.

hawg said:

I'm thinking if tea wont do it then neither will coffee. I'll give the tea a few days and if it doesn't work I'll try coffee.

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Coffee stains teeth was more that tea. Tea is leaves, but coffee is bean and roasted!

hawg said:

It's worth a shot. I don't have any leather dye.

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I’ll dip my 58, ugly snow white ivory in coffee too! see what happens

If I remember correctly, I use shoe polish.

I just bought them.

I cast them myself so material may be different than store bought. Just rubbed it on, as I remember. Brown color.

Another set I made faking stag grips. Some different detail.

hawg said:

I think I'll just save my pennies and get a set I really like.

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get those $400 Special Rare Stag grips!

hawg said:

If I had that kind of money I'd get the 795.00 walrus ivory and put them on a 1st gen.

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$800! wwwoooooowwwweeee!

I'd get bone grips, I don't like Faux.
Little bit fancy, Giraffe bone.
Or antler, horn, or any of the exotic woods.
Woolly Mammoth

Malachi Leviticus Blue said:

I'd get bone grips, I don't like Faux.
Little bit fancy, Giraffe bone.
Or antler, horn, or any of the exotic woods.
Woolly Mammoth

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they are cloning Woolly’s right now!!!! no joke

hawg said:

I don't really like faux either but I can't afford the nice wood, bone, antler grips. I can't afford to even look at mammoth ivory.

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Well, maybe you should make your own, I couldn't afford nice grips once back in another life, so I made some. I'm not even a good worker, but I went to a local lumber yard that had some scraps of nice wood, paid like $14 for a piece that had nice grain. I had bare minimum tools. It took a lot of time and a few do overs, but I turned out a pair of nice grips that looked awesome....I still have 75% of that chunk of wood left 15+ years later. Used it for knife handles and a few other things.
Really wish I had taken pics... but

hawg said:

If I had that kind of money I'd get the 795.00 walrus ivory and put them on a 1st gen.

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@Mark_Mark will eventually buy a gun that has the grips you want, I am sure he would give them to you for postage...

I’ve bought a couple sets of grips from this company. Excellent craftsmanship.
https://www.boonetrading.com/

South Prairie Jim said:

I’ve bought a couple sets of grips from this company. Excellent craftsmanship.
https://www.boonetrading.com/

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Oooohhh man, you should not have posted that link...I may end up more broker than I admit to being

Heck I'd even take bamboo over plastic