Show us your grips!

[Olympus]

Another set of royal blue and cream box elder burl grips.

 

[Boxhead]

French walnut on a custom 5" 45 Colt.

 

[.45Heater]

A set from Sarge... www.thefinergrain.com

 

[m&pman]

snakeskin

smith and wesson 645

 

[The Tomcat]

From Designergrips.com




Aluminum from Hogue

 

[sigsteve]

Here's my grips! Nicely done grip making from Sarge at The Finer Grain!

 

[thezoltar]

 

[.45Heater]

 

[RevolvingGarbage]

Here's my first attempt at DIY revolver stocks for my RG40:

I cut them off of a 1/2" thick plank of Red Oak from home depot, dremeled them to the rough final shape, finishing them with a file, sanded, then colored with Minnwax #231 Gunstock stain, and coated them in polyurethane.

I like them as a first attempt, and I feel like the next pair I make will probably be about ten times easier and ten times faster to make with the lessons ive learned from these.

 

[Olympus]

Black and gold box elder burl.

 

[Olympus]

Just some pictures of the desert ironwood grips on my own gun. Thinking about keeping this set for myself. I don't ever get around to putting my grips on a gun, so it gives a different perspective.

 

[jad0110]

Eagle Classics on a S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman:

 

[bwsmith2850]

Here's my first attempt at DIY revolver stocks for my RG40

They look pretty good. My first several attempts on auto grips went into the fire. My first sucessful ones are a couple pages back. I haven't had the nerve yet to try ones on the wheelguns' more complicated shapes. .

 

[chromerunner]

Picked these up at show..dont know who made them or etc but i like them a lot

..Beautiful grips so far! keep them going.

 

[Olympus]

Newest spalted maple...

 

[CamoCustom]

Gosh I wish you could make me a nice set of grips for my S&W 645, i had already asked you about it. I am in love with your different wood selections.

 

[Zundfolge]

Just got this nice set of Black Cherry grips for my Dan Wesson 14-2.

Full review posted here.

 

[KodiakBeer]

I'll bet I can top everybody, in rarity if not in beauty.

These grips are made of the rib bone of an extinct Stellar Sea Cow, which was a type of giant (30 feet long!) Alaskan Dugong or Manatee that the Russians wiped out 250 years ago in their early Alaskan explorations and settlement - they said they were delicious...

I picked up a short piece on a remote Aleutian beach years ago and had it ID'd by a local biologist. It's dense like ivory, but so old that it's yellowed and has interesting cracks running through it. I filed and carved them to shape, then soaked them in an epoxy resin to stabilize them because the cracks worried me. I think they look great on my old M1911 (the grips on it were not original anyway...).

There are more beautiful materials, but none rarer.

 

[bwsmith2850]

Kodiak, they came out great. Handmade truely custom stocks!

 

[CraigC]

I have a few. Still have several sets without any pictures, need to remedy that.

Antique ivory micarta by CLC on a custom Old Model Ruger .44Spl:


BluMagnum smooth stags on the same sixgun (original grips)


Cocobolo by JP Grips on a Kimber 1911 (w/Ciener):


Quilted maple by CLC on a 50th anniversary Blackhawk .44:


Fancy black walnut by CLC on a .32H&R Bisley Single Six:


Ajax stags on a Colt New Frontier .45Colt:

Eagle Ultra Ivory on a Kimber Ultra Compact .45:


American holly on a custom Super Blackhawk by Clements:

 

[CraigC]

....and a few more.

Ahrends cocbolo on a S&W M15:


BluMagnum ivory micarta on a custom Bisley Vaquero .45 by Clements:

TruIvory on a Cimarron 1872 Open Top .44Colt:

CLC birdseye maple on Old Model Single Six:


CLC fancy claro walnut on the same Single Six, now fitted with an XR3 grip frame:


Now we get into some older, lower resolution pics with spalted Karelian birch on a Bisley .44Mag:


CLC amboyna burl on New Model Single Six:


Herrett's Ropers on S&W K-38:

 

[KodiakBeer]

Some more - all walrus ivory.

 

[Olympus]

There's a HUGE market for revolver grips out there. I can't tell you how many emails I get asking about them. Someone could really do some damage if they could figure out a system for making revolver grips efficiently. In my area, a person could set up at the SASS matches and have more business than one man can handle.

My hat's off to everyone who makes revolver grips. It's hard to appreciate the time and effort unless you've tried it yourself.

 

[Olympus]

Redwood grips for an officer frame:

 

[dusty14u]

Zebrawood grips from Marschal in Hungary on a CZ85 Combat. Ordering the Heartwood grips for my FEG PA63