The hosting service turned a couple of the pictures upside down. Sorry for that.
What do you think? yay or nay?

These are awesome! You made these your self??

Beautiful and thanks for posting.

Doug

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No offense intended but they surely remind me of RUGER grips, well done but have the RUGER appearance.

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Thanks, man.
I didn't make them from scratch. They started out as these New Grip For S&W, K/L FRAME ROUND BUTT CHECKERED HARD WOOD OPENED BACK | eBay
These looked huge on the K frame and I didn't like them. I sanded them to the shape I wanted and to a size I think matches the gun better. I sanded off all of the checkering, and the rest is a paint job and tru-oil for the wood grain.

haha no offense taken. They do resemble the Ruger GP100 grips, with the black and wood grain center.

I'm a sucker! I thought they were rubber grips with a wooden insert, as they were in Ruger GP100.
So, they are all-wooden and black painted. Nice, interesting, with that Rugerish look

Very well done, and creative.


Thanks for sharing, and for doing something different. There’s not enough of that these days.

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Looks like Ruger grips........Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Not a thing wrong with them. But Ruger-looking grips on a S&W just look wrong to my eye. Probably doesn't help that I don't like the Ruger grips to begin with.

Very nice, clean looking work. As above, beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

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Different, but kind of cool. I think you did a very nice job of it. That must be why the girls call you Mr. Wonderful - you're good with your hands...

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Wow! I didn't see that coming. They do look alot like Ruger GP100 grips, and that is a compliment for me as I really like the stock GP100 grips a lot.

When you have sanding ability like mine, the ladies will let you just grab them by the .......... hand.

Thanks for the honest replies, guys. I like the grips, but they're not my favorites. Just something a little different.

Below are some more grips that I reshaped some, just not as dramatically -starting with the same type ebay cowboy grips.

They do have a Ruger personality.
I like the wood paneled grips for the GP100 as opposed to boring black rubber grips.
Have to say I had to look at them for a few minutes, but in the end I like the look.

Yup, very much a Ruger-look. Nice you can do such things.

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I customized some grips for a Taurus 65


This is what the gun looked like when I got it...
Firearms | Taurus USA


I polished the trigger, hammer and ejector, then customized a wood grip --if anyone's interested, I'll post a picture of what the grip looked like before I changed it.

The pictures don't capture it, but the glossy part of the grip is a dark reddish/purple wood grain.

This is what the aftermarket wood grip looked like when I got it, before I changed it https://i.ibb.co/CbGpjwf/IMG-1518.jpg

That Taurus looks 100% better with your customizations.

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Thanks, man.

Great craftsmanship!

However, making a S&W look like Ruger GP100 is... heresy?

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I did some for a Ruger SP101 too -did grips that look similar to the GP100.

Dunno how familiar you are with the sp101, but they come really short grips, so I made some bigger ones that look kind of like the GP100s.

Real nice work, innovative and unusual. BUT, why would You want a S&W to look like a Ruger???

They're S&W grips, they just have a color scheme that Ruger uses on the GP101. I don't want a S&W to look like a Ruger.
I have a bunch of grips, man. They're just something different. I think they look ok on the model 66, but think the orange wood grips I posted above look much better on that gun.
I do think those black grips at the top of the page would look really good on a blued model 19.

Like I said, excellent craftsmanship, Mr Wonderful.

In defense of Ruger, I find the stocks on the GP-100 and Super Redhawk to be a perfect fit for my hands and they really seem to soak up the recoil of full power magnum ammo.

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They look good, but the dichotomy of Ruger-ish grips on a S&W is making my brain hurt.