Homemade grips picture thread

[mikerjf]

Lets see your homemade grips! Please note material used, finish, and maybe what you learned from that particular project.

I'll start out with a 637 wearing Zebrawood with spray-can clear lacquer.

I over-sanded and messed up the fit a little towards the top; and the screw setup was from online and (being careful) I don't think I set it deep enough - they feel better when a little deeper than flush.

 

[2152hq]

Pre-27 w/American Walnut grips & checkering.
I don't remember the LPI of the checkering.
I did the engraving and bluing also.

 

[mikerjf]

642 with high-horn "ivory-look" American Holly wood.

 

[mikerjf]

And a little NAA wearing the same.

 

[BC38]

Service stocks for a 1917 commercial.
Zebra wood with boiled linseed oil finish.
First attempt and they didn't turn out too great, but I have more wood so I can try again sometime.

 

[Fishinfool]

About 15 years or so ago, I purchased some Sambar Stag antler cuts from a place in NJ called "Elen Hunting". Made the 1911 grips shown below from the material. Stag is a lot harder than I thought, and having access to a belt sander made it a lot easier. 1911's are not really hard to make grips for, a lot easier than for a revolver, I think.

Larry

 

[kscharlie]

Revolver Grips

I have made only 1 set of revolver grips, and they were for my Ruger Super Blackhawk, .44 mag. These are made of redwood, finished with Tru-Oil. The one thing I learned is to let others make revolver grips.

 

[kscharlie]

1911 Grips

Since the OP did not say specifically revolver grips, I will take the liberty to post a few pics of some of my 1911 grips that I have made in the past. The picture labels indicate the type of wood used. All of them have been finished with Tru-Oil.

 

[kscharlie]

Just a few more 1911 grips. Hope you all don't mind. I have quite a few more, but this will suffice. My favorite wood to work with is Desert Ironwood. And it is called "Ironwood" for a reason...

 

[mikerjf]

OP says autos are fine... great stuff everyone!

Kscharlie, I especially like the buckeye burl, that is really pretty wood.

 

[Moo Moo]

Home-made but not by me. A pistol shooter located on the East Coast made this beautiful set of ergonomic target grips for ISSF competition shooting. He worked from the garage of his home. I had to be there for about 2 hours while he fitted them to my hand. Only cost me $200 AUD.

 

[ACORN]

Pre-27 w/American Walnut grips & checkering.
I don't remember the LPI of the checkering.
I did the engraving and bluing also.




Op

OUTSTANDING!

 

[lawandorder]

Some very talented folks. Thank you for sharing your work.

 

[THEmodelof1989]

Service stocks for a 1917 commercial.
Zebra wood with boiled linseed oil finish.
First attempt and they didn't turn out too great, but I have more wood so I can try again sometime.

These don't look like any zebra wood I've ever seen. Zebra wood is called such because of the distinctively dark figuring against a much lighter color, similar to an actual zebra. The OP posted an excellent example of zebra wood.

Here is a picture of my Dan Wesson that's better than everyone else's Dan Wesson because it's mine. The grips are... you guessed it... zebra wood.

 

[walter o]

grips for uberti #3new model

 

[mike campbell]

I've made many out of beautiful wood, but here a couple that were made with function in mind.

These in back walnut were made to address the tendency of a revolver to dive into my hand during the rapid DA fire. The spur at the top is akin to a beavertail on a 1911 in that it allows a high grip that doesn't shift under fire. I'll probably checker them this winter:

These in English walnut were made oversize to soak up the recoil from bonafide .357 magnum loads in a 3" J frame:

 

[Gunhacker]

My one effort (for now)... figured Claro Walnut finished with BLO and wax, the gun is a .41 Magnum Blackhawk with a stainless steel grip frame I fitted and polished up. Also altered a Bisley hammer to work in a standard grip frame.

I haven't yet figured out how to do the frame inletting for S&W style grips, I have more of that figured Walnut that I'd love to turn into some nice S&W grips. The Ruger was a great "first time" project to try out grip making.

 

[mikerjf]

Anybody want to guess material on these?

 

[squidsix]

My one effort (for now)... figured Claro Walnut finished with BLO and wax, the gun is a .41 Magnum Blackhawk with a stainless steel grip frame I fitted and polished up. Also altered a Bisley hammer to work in a standard grip frame.

I haven't yet figured out how to do the frame inletting for S&W style grips, I have more of that figured Walnut that I'd love to trun into some nice S&W grips. The Ruger was a great "first time" project to try out grip making.

For your first time out the gate, those are amazing!!

 

[Bangler]

Dear gawd, help me! You guys are giving me ideas!
Great work by all here and more importantly, kudos for developing new skills.