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1964 Colt Python with Fancy KB Stocks
Colt Python shipped on December 7, 1964 with fancy stocks by Keith Brown. Click on the photo for a better look.
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07-19-2020, 08:54 AM
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Oh wow that thing is gorgeous! I have a 4in Nickel Python that I'm thinking of having re-done...
Thoes grips are beautiful sir!
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07-19-2020, 10:02 AM
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I’m ecstatic that I sold mine in the 70’s. Yours is gorgeous. Love the KB stocks.
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07-19-2020, 10:13 AM
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That's one of the nicest Colts I've ever seen! I would have to wear those white gloves that museum curators use before I'd touch that! Do you shoot it at all?
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Those have to be some of the fanciest KB stocks I have ever seen. Can't recall what that treatment at the bottom of the stocks is called, but been seeing it more lately.
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07-19-2020, 10:59 AM
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Jeff...I don't shoot the Python often, but I have shot it on several occasions and it performed very well.
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07-19-2020, 11:03 AM
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That Python is fantastic
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Bill: What wood did Keith use for these grips ?
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07-19-2020, 02:37 PM
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I will ask Keith about the type of wood. I remember it was difficult to work with and he wasn't too keen on using it again.
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Woodworkers are a different breed, same as metalworkers (ironworkers & tin knockers), and classic car guys. That's just amazing! I can do electricity and HVACR, and made a good living at it, but that is just amazing! And, somewhere in the crowd, there's always one, Kilroy says, "You're charging me WHAT just for a lousy set of custom grips???" I would get that when I charged someone to fix their furnace when it was February in PA doing them a favor (side job) or fix their A/C when it was 90 outside. I don't even know what that wood cost, but it was worth every penny. On an already beautiful gun. Dangggg!
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Beautiful Bill!!!
Thanks for sharing,
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07-19-2020, 10:20 PM
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I agree! Best looking Python I've ever seen and the KB stocks are out of this world beautiful.
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Bill,
Super Python and the KB grips just put it over the top! I wonder if the wood could be Snakewood?
Larry
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Thanks for the kind comments guys. Bill asked me to check in here and describe the stocks. They are made from Lacewood, its quite a challenge to shape and especially checker, the wood overall is quite hard but the small lighter areas are softer and guiding the cutter in and out of it is frustrating at times. I describe the base as sculpted as that seems to fit best. The inlays are ivory, the medallion trim is lathe turned and the diamonds cut and filed one at a time to fit the opening after wood diamond is removed.
thanks again
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The 1960s Pythons were among the
best ever made. The company still
had excellent craftsmen and assemblers
back then.
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Excellent photography, I wish I could do half that well.
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love the story and really love the Colt!! grips are over the top
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