Pewter grips?

[torpid]

Could anybody here please share any pics of pewter grips on a handgun?

-Thanks!

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[rockstar.esq]

A little frilly for my taste however they do look professional. Sorry but I don't have any pics. just happenin through.

 

[White Horseradish]

Pewter? Isn't it kinda soft?

 

[jrfoxx]

Pewter? Isn't it kinda soft?

And quite heavy? Kinda cool looking though, and the wife likes them, so....exscuse to buy a gun......?

 

[slopemeno]

They were popular during the 'heavy gun' era of IPSC. So were Advantage grips, brass grips, etc. And, yes, the grip screw holes beat out.

 

[Dienekes]

For a while back around the early 80s Colt was selling some as accessories. Bought a set with scrolls, rampant colts, etc. to put on an engraved 1911 my wife had. Not quite my taste but all she saw was the horse motif and that did it.
Rather attractive but no photo posting capability. Heck, I do well to get online.

As mentioned, a bit on the heavy side and a bit soft.

 

[ziadel]

some pewter contains lead, and you should assume it does unless your told different by someone in a position to know (like the manufacturer)


just something to keep in mind.

 

[boing]

If they're anything like the pewter frame glasses I've worn, they'll turn green in short order. More rigorous maintenance may be required, but then I have very reactive sweat.

 

[torpid]

I'm beginning to think that, when applied, they apparently make the gun photo-proof!

 

[RyanM]

Pewter? Isn't it kinda soft?

Wood? Isn't that kinda soft?

 

[confed sailor]

pewter?

well if pearl handled pistols are for a New Orleans pimp, Where would the pimp who had pewter handled pistols be from?

 

[White Horseradish]

Wood? Isn't that kinda soft?

What kind of wood? Don't see too many pine grips, do ya? back atcha


All I really know of pewter is that in my youger days I had some trinkets made of it. They looked terrible and/or broke in short order.

Now, silver grips...

 

[middy]

Where would the pimp who had pewter handled pistols be from?

Ummm... Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia?

 

[dxkj21]

hrm maybe for a show case/safe queen

 

[AirForceShooter]

They are kind of cool looking but they must be rough on your hands after 200 or 300 rounds

AFS

 

[DT Guy]

I would feel perpetually underdressed for my gun.


Larry

 

[Sunray]

"...Where would the pimp who had pewter handled pistols be from..." 16th Century England.
"...pewter contains lead..." Not any more. Current pewter is an AL alloy. No lead.
"...Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia..." Nope. All the pimps and hookers in N.S. are in Halifax waiting for the Fleet to come in.

 

[unspellable]

Pewter

Modern pewter is simply pure tin. (Or as close to pure as is practical.) If it's an aluminum alloy it's fake pewter. 95% of the "pewter" seen today is fake. (Tin ain't cheap.)

Older pewter was about 90 to 95% tin, the rest being lead to harden it and improve castibility. The rub, of course is that lead is toxic and can be absorbed through the skin.

If it turns green it ain't pewter. It ain't even fake pewter. It's only pewter colored.

Pure tin is very soft. You can scratch a groove in it with the thumbnail. This makes a good test for real pewter, the aluminum alloy fake stuff is too hard to scratch with a thumbnail.

 

[bakert]

I know everyone has different tastes in guns, grips etc but to be honest there aint no way I'd show a pewter gripped gun to anybody and say it was mine!

 

[unspellable]

Pewter grips

I am compelled to agree with bakert's observation.

 

[torpid]

I am compelled to agree with bakert's observation.

Well, have you ever seen pewter grips on a handgun?

Because I still haven't, and it's looking like I quite possibly never will...