SFPD Badge Grip Plate (Skull Knocker)EVEN NEWER PICS ADDED

[CH4]

I was wondering if anyone was going to note that. I'd have thought it'd be oriented 180 degrees the other way.

Best,
RMVivas

Yep
Still working the kink out of my neck.

 

[Abbynormal]

In the Indy area in the 70' & 80's, Lotta Cop's hat badges were mounted on brass or stainless plates and installed on their grips.

I don't know if they were statements of pride and loyalty or skull crushers, but they did look good and professional.

 

[gunbarrel]

I guess this may have been another way it was done...

 

[Vtgw938]

"In the Indy area in the 70' & 80's, Lotta Cop's hat badges were mounted on brass or stainless plates and installed on their grips".

I was just thinking about that as I have a couple small badges that went on our winter trooper hats.

 

[gunnertwo]

At my agency (when I started) we all carried revolvers. The trend was to place the "Mr Yuk" sticker of the poison control center on the butt of our Colt's and Smith's. Not anywhere as classy as the badge plates.

G2

 

[charlie sherrill]

Kinda weird that the badge will be upside down when the gun is holstered.

Not when you're whacking somebody on the forehead and don't want to bend your barrel.

 

[charlie sherrill]

We had them (some,but not all of us) back when we all carried revolvers. The revolvers were nickel plated plates and later stainless plates when we went from personal carry to issued stainless. They usually had a department logo and maybe a badge number. They weren't for cracking heads, we had other stuff for that, but were mostly for adding a little bling A local jeweler made them for us. I wish I still had one of them. You can get similar stuff for Glock mags but it ain't the same.

 

[Truckman]

Not when you're whacking somebody on the forehead and don't want to bend your barrel.

To paraphrase the lyrics written by Dominic Frontiere:

What do you do when you're branded
And you know you're in jail?

...Ben

 

[bananaman]

I did a complete acetone strip, repair and refinish on the stocks, using lacquer as was used originally. The butt plate was fitted to the stocks and gently attached with the correct orientation.

BEAUTIFUL all around! Kinda qualifies as a BBQ gun! Bob

 

[cruiserdan]

I did a complete acetone strip, repair and refinish on the stocks, using lacquer as was used originally. The butt plate was fitted to the stocks and gently attached with the correct orientation.

In a left-hand rig to boot. Very cool.

 

[Vtgw938]

In a left-hand rig to boot. Very cool.

It really needs to be in a little longer drop holster and bent so it about sticks out sideways.

 

[junglefighter]

I haven't seen a holster with a rear sight/hammer protection in years. I don't even remember where I saw one, just remember seeing one.

 

[Hawg Rider]

Another Example

That's a beautiful SFPD plate that displays some very nice workmanship. Here's another example of grip plates on a revolver with some possible LEO provenance. This Model 27-2 has a slightly different style of plates that were probably installed to protect the stocks as opposed to being a skull cracker or retirement presentation.

 

[GerSan69]

I saw several officers with brass buttplates when I was on Denver PD in the late 70s - early 80s. I ended up getting one myself, polished and engraved with the badge and my number. Lost that thing years ago, probably during the divorce move-out in '90.

 

[jeffrefrig]

That's the first time I've seen something like that. I've been under a rock I suppose! That's a nice gun.

 

[Muley Gil]

Those butt plates were common in Alabama too. Most were brass, with a scattering of nickel and stainless.

I never cared for them myself. The thick (1/4") brass ones threw the balance off.

 

[steelslaver]

That'll leave a mark.

And I am quite sure that raised star would make what could be "evidence"

Not the best plan now that police brutality actually exists in court.

 

[K Frame Keith]

I saw a very similar set of grips carried by a New York State Trooper about 1983. I’d love to find something like it.

 

[Xfuzz]

I should have just used the department name instead
of mine....I could at least sell em.
Back in the early 70's a plate would cost around $90-95 bucks.
That is working a lot of Mexican Cantinas at $5 bucks an hour...
extra job pay at the time.

Today they run around $300.00 +

Every set of grips I come across I try
and match the fit....no exact fit so far.
You would think it would an EZ match.
Have a K frame and a N frame plate.

 

[Vtgw938]

Every set of grips I come across I try
and match the fit....no exact fit so far.
You would think it would an EZ match.
Have a K frame and a N frame plate.

Make the plate fit the stocks or the stocks fit the plate, depending on whether the plate is too big or too small. Refinishing the stocks at the same time as fitting the plate make it relatively easy as you can shape both while the plate is attached.