Pachmyar Compac Professional Grips - in wood?

[fordag]

I am a big fan of the Pachmyar Compac Professional Grips. They fit my hand very well and best of all they do not have finger grooves. I dislike finger grooves because none of them really fit my fingers.

What I'd really like to find are a set of Compac Professional Grips but in wood, preferably rosewood or walnut.

The Renegades are out, they have grooves and they cover the backstrap.

Any suggestions?

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

I can certainly sympathize with your desire. My hands are a similar size (but not identical - many Hogue and some Altamont (?) finger-groove grips do fit me well). I had Roy Fishpaw make me a French walnut copy of Compac Pro grips for a round-butted N frame. However, he increased the thickness of the grips slightly. This made them unsuitable for me on the original revolver, but apparently in roundbutting the gun, I had exactly duplicated what the factory later did in roundbutting all N frames, so I was able to use the grips on my 629, where the slightly increased thickness worked out perfectly for handling recoil.

My point here is that he thickened the grips. I don't know whether he did it because he had large hands, which of course doesn't make much sense, or whether he did it because he had to, wood being somewhat weaker than rubber and steel, as in the Pachmayr product. I never did ask him, but if you get custom grips made, you may want to bring this up with the maker.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Back in the 80s I cut down factory K-frame round butt target grips to the grip frame..to get wood grips like the Pachmayr Compact professionals.


Course back then those wood grips were about $10