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1st set of Culina grips - Osage Orange
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Those turned out really nice
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09-16-2022, 07:01 PM
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Beautiful! Love the bookmatching.
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09-16-2022, 07:07 PM
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Very nice. Be careful - they are addictive.
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09-16-2022, 07:28 PM
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No, it won’t be your last. 
J&J do fantastic work.
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09-18-2022, 11:42 AM
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Great looking grips! I really like how light color wood contrasts with a blued gun
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09-18-2022, 07:19 PM
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Over years of light exposure (natural not artificial) Osage will turn from that very light almost maple color to a darker, deep honey brown.
I have four Osage traditional bows, 2 recurves and 2 longbows, and have also used the wood for some nice knife handles as well.
All of the wood had darkened quite a bit since first cut and finished.
In the stickbow world, the French name for Osage is preferred.
Bois d'arc, wood for the bow.
In the more southern parts of the Osage range the French word is just simplified to bodark.
It is a good looking, and tough wood. Osage fenceposts that have been in the ground for 130 years haven't rotted out.
Congrats on some beautiful grips.
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Beautiful grips OP. I am sure you will buy more sets  . They are addicting. I have had the ones below for about 3 years, and they have not changed color, I hear that color change is related to the amount of sunlight they get
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Beautiful Culina grips there. I am more and more becoming a fan of the Osage orange.
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Very nice Culina grips you have. Not long ago I picked up an N frame beautiful Culina smooth set, like yours. I prefer having some checkering on mine, so I sent them to Curt and he put a fine 20 LPI great looking checkering pattern on mine later.
Great thing is having options with the terrific talented members we have among us.
Great looking grips you have now..
Best Randy..
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09-21-2022, 12:15 PM
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Those grips are stunning. I’m a big fan of after market grips that improve a gun. Especially when they look good.
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09-21-2022, 12:41 PM
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Very nice Culina grips you have. Not long ago I picked up an N frame beautiful Culina smooth set, like yours. I prefer having some checkering on mine, so I sent them to Curt and he put a fine 20 LPI great looking checkering pattern on mine later.
Great thing is having options with the terrific talented members we have among us.
Great looking grips you have now..
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What was the cost of the checkering service? Thats something Ive tried to do myself and had some success but only on 1911 panels, Id never botch a set of Culuna grios.
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09-22-2022, 06:27 AM
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Just some further examples to consider and help you empty out your wallet
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First grips I've ever seen made out of hedge. Purty.
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09-22-2022, 11:24 AM
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First grips I've ever seen made out of hedge. Purty.
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I know right? All I can think of is hedgerows, hedge apples, and the gnarly job of trimming back those trees.
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09-22-2022, 11:25 AM
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Those are stunning. I'm keeping my eye out for more.
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09-28-2022, 01:57 PM
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Osage Orange is also one of the top 2 bowyers woods on the planet. I have two and theyre both crooked as a snake and have holes through the limbs and shoot like nothing else. Its an awesome wood.
Yes, people used to plant them to contain animals and as windbreaks, farmers especially. When planted in any proximity they quickly entangle with each other and firm a pretty impenetrable barrier but when taken from their natural range where theyve grown further apart the bole will be nice and tall and straight with limb sections to match and that my friends is what the Native Peoples used to travel for days to trade for, it was very valuable and will still set you back a good amount.
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09-28-2022, 07:16 PM
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Very pretty grips ! Osage is hard and can be chippy also burns making it extra difficult to work. But you almost have to have it in hand to get the full effect.
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09-29-2022, 09:18 AM
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Very pretty grips ! Osage is hard and can be chippy also burns making it extra difficult to work. But you almost have to have it in hand to get the full effect.
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Holy cow, KB, grip royalty. Thank you for looking at my thread and posting. You are right about the Osage optical character, you really have to have them in hand to appreciate. There is a 3-dimensionality, especially on the end grain, that really stands out when the grips are viewed from different angles. I'll try to take some more pictures to see if I can capture that. In my last pic with the grips on the 28-2 the end grain at the football cutout is revealing itself nicely.
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