Originally Posted by jake1945

One set of grips I repaired looked just like yours. Splices and fillers will never look 'right'. So, in my situation, the grips had enough wood on the inside that would cover the missing piece. I cut out a piece slightly larger, squared the edges of the ***le' on the outside of grip, trimmed the 'new' piece to exact size and used Gorilla glue. Then using sand paper I got a perfect contour and the grain matched up very well and of course the color was perfect.