Good Friend and Old Ivory

[two-bit cowboy]

The rich blue on that kit gun begs for those ivories.

Most handsome. Congrats.

 

[bamabiker]

Thanks for all the comments. I guess I knew all along it would be the blued gun. I have some on my blued M19 snubnose and my 3 1/2" blued M27.
To Pete45, the holster is one I made and use sometimes with one of my J frames. Glad you like it.

 

[mod34]

Just about anything on a Mod34 is going to get my vote!

 

[Jeff Napoleoni]

how does ivory feel in the hand?

 

[Kinman]

Ivory has the warmth of anything organic, unlike plastic. A good friend and collector told me years ago that the best thing you can do for ivory, mother of pearl, and many semi precious stones like Opal is to give them a yearly soak in sperm whale oil, since that has long gone out of vogue much like ivory lanolin is an excellent substitute, mineral oil will also work although not as good. You need to feed it much like good wood or it will dry and crack.

 

[Flygas]

Just out of curiosity, how exactly do you get the sperm out of the whale?

 

[LittleCooner]

I vote Blue, those grips just "pop" on the Blue gun.

 

[Peak53]

That's a bunch of very nice J frames! The ivories gave me pause. I am typically a blue guy, but have a few gorgeous nickel guns. After flipping back and forth, I will take the contrarian view and go for the ivory on nickel look. However ... they are all right! Nice.

 

[crazyphil]

That would be a tough decision. Glad its you and not me that has to make
it. The ivory looks good on all three.

 

[Truckman]

Just out of curiosity, how exactly do you get the sperm out of the whale?

I could have slept better tonight without that to think about......Ben

 

[RKmesa]

They look great Greg. I got the better end of the deal.... a good Buddy and a new holster for Christmas!

Mike, I really like that holster!!! That little humpback 38 looks great in there.

 

[Rudi]

Looks like you need 3 sets of ivory grips.