How do you make JMB's Hi-power better?

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Add a set of Pek grips!

John Moses designed the perfection we know today as the hi-power, but he sure would have wished to have grips like these!
I originally ordered these grips in January of 2005. Mr. Pek took my order and, after a long spell of no contact, notified me that my walnut beauties were complete!

When I originally saw the set he made for Mr. Camp, I needed to have these for my Hi-power too. I wanted walnut, and Hakan suggested a nice blank of American walnut. The grain and burl in these grips are magnificent, and I only wish that my camera could take good enough pics to show it!
Here's a taste of how they appear,
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and here is a link to some more pics.
Hakan Pek Grips

And this is Mr. Pek's website
http://www.imageseek.com/hakan/

enjoy the pictures, and please add your feedback.

Best,
chris~
 
His work is magnificent, and every time I take a look at them I find another nuance, or detail that he does.

Guys, contact him order a set for your 1911, CZ or BHP. you will not be disapointed!
 
I am curious as to how thick these are in relation to the original grips. Did your Hi-Power have factory wood or plastic before, and how do these compare? Thicker? Thinner?

Very nice looking, and I must admit to being very interested in a set.
 
How do you make JMB's Hi-Power better? Easy, give the design the Mr. D. Saive of FN to finish.

You'd be surprised if you actually looked at Mr. Brownings original design for the High Power. Granted though, at that time he had to work around *his own* patents that were assigned to other companies. Still, Saive really gave us the High Power we know and love.
 
I am curious as to how thick these are in relation to the original grips. Did your Hi-Power have factory wood or plastic before, and how do these compare? Thicker? Thinner?
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The practical came with those rubber pachmeyers with the added wrap around pieces.
I immediately took those off and added a set of Rubber Uncle Mikes crafted by the famous Craig Spegel. This is what the HP wore untin the Pek's arrived.
My last HP, which I had to unfortunately sell wore the factory Mk.II grips [wood]
As far as a comparison, they are a thinner more egronomic feel than the Factory wood. The mold and blend well in the front of the grip, so as to almost feel as if they blend and meld right into the metal....there's no clunky feeling if that is what you are looking to hear.
I have seen grips a slight bit thinner, but cannot compare them to these as I've never felt em.
If I did not have these, it wold have to be Spegels.

here's a forward pic that I hope shows off the grip front I explained.

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How do you make JMB's Hi-Power better? Easy, give the design the Mr. D. Saive of FN to finish.

You'd be surprised if you actually looked at Mr. Brownings original design for the High Power. Granted though, at that time he had to work around *his own* patents that were assigned to other companies. Still, Saive really gave us the High Power we know and love.
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Not to quibble...oh hell, let's quibble. Since JMB had the inconsiderate temerity to die before refining the pistol, Mr. Saive didn't have much of a choice, did he? After many years of dealing with the indecisive French (redundant?), and the expiration of the 1911 patents, he ended up using JMB's 1911 extractor, firing pin stop, and firing pin in the slide, since JMB's striker-fired design didn't meet French military requirements.

A look at Browning's patent shows that the main elements that make a Hi-Power different than a 1911 are courtesy of JMB: the linkless cam-activated barrel, bushingless slide, and trigger activated tripping lever/disconnector. Of course, he was designing around his own patents at the time, so the intention was not necessarily to "improve."

Saive's contribution was to move the slide stop plunger into the recoil spring guide rod, the grip shape, fire control system (nothing new there...sear and external hammer with strut and mainspring, and sear-blocking thumb safety...shades of the 1911) and the 1911-ized slide. Who actually designed the double-column magazine is unclear.

Not to disparage Mr. Saive's legacy, or over-amplify JMB's, but more misinformation has been put out (starting with ill-informed gunmag writers decades ago), and continues to be spread, about the Hi-Power and who designed what.

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That said, man those grips are nice!
 
Thank you Stephen.

I've posted here as well as the "way station", as Hakan asked me to show off his grips on the boards. I figgered, why not show his work and possibly send some customers his way!
How have yours held up!:confused:
 
All new advances!!!!!!!!!

You guys are forgetting the advances in gun making since JMB died, which there has been 60yrs of progress. There are 3 categories, material, action, and accessories.

1) Make HiPower a polymer frame with steel insert, tennifer treated slide, with swappable backstrap for different hand sizes. Polygonal rifling in the barrel with titanium firinging pins.

2) Double action/single action options, with ability to swap safety to left/right/ambi, or DAO/SFS with change of a part. Better yet, just go with striker fired action with 2nd strike capability, and dont' forget the decocking lever.

3) Integral rails for light/laser, Tritium night sights. Jet funnel, 15rd+ polymer magazines, and also internal gun lock.

Whew....now that I look at all the advances, I think that the BHP had it just about right many many years ago. :D
 
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You guys are forgetting the advances in gun making since JMB died, which there has been 60yrs of progress. There are 3 categories, material, action, and accessories.

1) Make HiPower a polymer frame with steel insert, tennifer treated slide, with swappable backstrap for different hand sizes. Polygonal rifling in the barrel with titanium firinging pins.

2) Double action/single action options, with ability to swap safety to left/right/ambi, or DAO/SFS with change of a part. Better yet, just go with striker fired action with 2nd strike capability, and dont' forget the decocking lever.

3) Integral rails for light/laser, Tritium night sights. Jet funnel, 15rd+ polymer magazines, and also internal gun lock.

Whew....now that I look at all the advances, I think that the BHP had it just about right many many years ago. :D
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You know my brother of the air, you almost gave me a heart attack until I read the last sentence. Not funny, not funny at all. :)
 
Hello. The grips have held up fine and stay tight when shooting and so forth.

I am sorry that the title of the thread actually seems to of let it get hijacked.

Best.
 
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