Tyler T-Grips

[chief38]

Tyler Manufacturing makes a great product but IMHO is a poorly run & mis-managed business! Their customer service is just about nonexistent! Eventually you will usually get your order and as long as you understand that going into ordering, just send your order and check in and be prepared to wait! Eventually you'll get them.

 

[banger]

I have been using different styles of "Tyler T grips" since the 70's.

As others have pointed out, there is a pent up demand out there.

I for one will not tolerate the aggravation of dealing with them on an order though.

Now the rhetorical question..... Who lost out on this deal?

 

[Borderboss]

First post and it's an add for Tyler T-Grips???

Sounds like someone at Tyler needs an influx of cash. Maybe if you cleared out some back orders people would send money and buy your stuff.

My thoughts exactly. If the Tyler people really were trying to change their ways, they wouldn't send a shill to advertise. They would get on the forum themselves, do a mea culpa for the years of bad business practices, and explain how they're fixing it so people would feel confident in ordering again.

Burned once, shame on you. Burned twice, shame on me.

 

[hkcavalier]

Kind of scratching my head over the comments that Tyler T-Grips are useless or cosmetic. Have any of you shot a hard-recoiling revolver with frame-width grips? You often bang your knuckle on the triggerguard.

Sure, here in 2020 you can go buy many varieties of target grips for just about any revolver. Back in the Tyler heyday, not so much. If you're trying to create a period look or just like old-school accessories they work great. You end up with something thinner than most target grips but with better ergonomics than magnas.

 

[SuperMan]

I agree with you hk... I have used them on my 58s with the original Service Stocks and it adds a LOT more control than without...

When I first became a distributor for Tyler they accepted credit cards. The first two orders were made using the card. On making the third order they could not take CCs any more apparently because they had had so many complaints the CC companies cut them off or they wanted/needed the cash up front to float the business... Either way there is no excuse for running a business like this...

Bob

 

[gfors]

I like the look and love the function of magnas plus T. Target grips present a longer reach for my trigger finger, which reduces my accuracy in DA. Magnas, by themselves, give me the reach I like, but don't have quite enough "meat" to firmly control the gun, from trigger pull thru recoil. Target stocks are too big; magnas, alone, are too small. Magnas, with a Tyler, are just right. My groups are noticeably tighter, with this set-up, than with either targets or magnas, by themselves.
I wish these folks would get it figured out, because I could use a few more T-Grips, but I'm not willing to pay the prices I see on eBay, lately.

 

[Old Corp]

Thanks for the update.... I put in a very basic order, a polished aluminum K-SQ adapter around the same time period.
Maybe it will actually show up.

 

[Chubbs103]

Thanks for the update.... I put in a very basic order, a polished aluminum K-SQ adapter around the same time period.
Maybe it will actually show up.

My order has been in since Nov. Don't go jumpin' the line.

 

[HamHands]

First post and it's an add for Tyler T-Grips???

Sounds like someone at Tyler needs an influx of cash. Maybe if you cleared out some back orders people would send money and buy your stuff.

Hahahaha! Maybe, maybe... But I do know that Tyler-grips are one of the sole reason I use "J-Frames" for me Meaty Mitts or otherwise I'd be stuck to only "N" frames and "Semi-Auto's"... So I appreciate his products and so does my wife and daughter! Rock on "T-Grips" as you make guys and gals with both big and small hands handle quality Smith and Colts in .38Special...

Winter Carry Gear... Mostly used in tandem rushing to CVS's Drive-Thru "when open the drive-thru that is" before closing for Prescriptions and CoughSyrup for the girls in "flu-season"... But what a quality pair and very comforting!

Of course, "Ripley" rides shotgun and she doesn't play... kinda like a "FuRRy New-York-Reload"...

 

[clang444]

Hahahaha! Maybe, maybe... But I do know that Tyler-grips are one of the sole reason I use "J-Frames" for me Meaty Mitts or otherwise I'd be stuck to only "N" frames and "Semi-Auto's"... So I appreciate his products and so does my wife and daughter! Rock on "T-Grips" as you make guys and gals with both big and small hands handle quality Smith and Colts in .38Special...

Just because a company makes a good product doesn't mean that they deserve our business when they abuse their customers. The latest update on their website says 3-6 week delivery time and there are plenty of people who commented on this thread that they've been waiting 6 months to a year for their order to arrive.

They make 8 different size T-grips, how hard can it be to keep them in stock? They don't go bad after all. And this has been going on for several years.

I remember ordering my first Tyler catalog by mail years ago. When I placed my order for T-grips, they arrived in a few weeks. I've placed several more orders over the years until the wait times became ridiculous. Now I find my grip adapters somewhere else.

 

[gr7070]

. Have any of you shot a hard-recoiling revolver with frame-width grips? You often bang your knuckle on the triggerguard.

Despite some protests above the magna's are garbage grips, see quoted text.

Sure, here in 2020 you can go buy many varieties of target grips for just about any revolver.

Exactly! We are here... In 2020.

I would buy a grip that performs incredibly well, on it's own, without a prosthetic. That also, isn't ugly as hell, as the prosthetic thing is.

In fact, when I buy S&Ws they already come that way! But I'm also not hung up on anecdotal "science".

Someone above has been waiting since November?! Ignoring that they're ugly, and function worse than a modern grip; is there anything else that needs to be said?

November.

The fact that there's a long standing forum member who makes a competing; if still ugly, sorry ; ); version and y'all aren't falling over yourselves to give him business boggles my mind.

 

[wrangler5]

Actually, customers are giving BK Grips more business than is comfortable sometimes, and I think (but can't prove) that a majority come from this site.

Since the China Virus lockdowns began in March, demand has significantly surpassed prior years. (Sales in 2020 went past 2019 total sales during the first week of August.) The "plastic" adapters are cast in individual molds and need to have sprues and flash trimmed off before they're ready for sale. That's Xacto knife work, and with increasingly arthritic hands becomes hard to do for more than a couple of batches a day. There's a batch of black K adapters curing at the moment, and they'll go into inventory later tonight. There should be another batch of something made tomorrow, but probably not two.

Thanks to all those here who have supported, and appreciated, the plastic alternative over the years.

 

[.357magger]

With regards to Tyler T Grips and the many years of problems not only fulfilling orders but even basic communication with a customer, "Fool me once...". They have this thing called the internet and I've been successful finding what I need on the secondary market.

I like my vintage revolvers to use vintage accessories and holsters whenever possible. I find T Grips to be extremely useful in that regard and to make my N and K frames easier to shoot well, albeit relatively inexpensively. Have used them for decades and decades.

If someone else doesn't "get it ", I couldn't care less.

 

[Old Corp]

Actually, customers are giving BK Grips more business than is comfortable sometimes, and I think (but can't prove) that a majority come from this site.

Since the China Virus lockdowns began in March, demand has significantly surpassed prior years. (Sales in 2020 went past 2019 total sales during the first week of August.) The "plastic" adapters are cast in individual molds and need to have sprues and flash trimmed off before they're ready for sale. That's Xacto knife work, and with increasingly arthritic hands becomes hard to do for more than a couple of batches a day. There's a batch of black K adapters curing at the moment, and they'll go into inventory later tonight. There should be another batch of something made tomorrow, but probably not two.

Thanks to all those here who have supported, and appreciated, the plastic alternative over the years.

Also have and enjoy the BK adapters I've ordered, and what's nice is you don't have to set your watch to 1974 to deal with them/you! Thank you!

Do wish you'd try squirting molten aluminum or brass/bronze into some molds so that could be an offering... j/k, know that's not possible with your method.
But, BK is quality stuff at a fair price for what's offered.

 

[PALADIN85020]

I prefer getting nostalgic vibes when viewing classic revolvers. Original grips/stocks rule. However, the smaller variety just don't seem to cut it when my hands require a more substantial grip area.

The T-grips fit in with older classics and give no additional rearward bulk while giving you more to hang onto. They are easily removed to maintain the original appearance. A case in point is this Colt Detective Special from 1959. Perfect solution!

 

[Rodan]

I've had an order in since January... took almost two months to get a response via text a few months ago that they were 'catching up'... still waiting. Had I read the various threads on Tyler, I probably wouldn't have ordered them.

I have several of the BK adapters and they are nice, but I wanted aluminum, like the originals, which are getting near impossible to find.

I don't mind the waiting so much... how many on here have waited as long or longer for custom grips or leather? The aggravation is due to the misrepresented wait time, and the complete lack of communication.

They sure don't waste any time cashing your check, though... do they?

 

[.357magger]

I've had an order in since January... took almost two months to get a response via text a few months ago that they were 'catching up'... still waiting. Had I read the various threads on Tyler, I probably wouldn't have ordered them.

I have several of the BK adapters and they are nice, but I wanted aluminum, like the originals, which are getting near impossible to find.

I don't mind the waiting so much... how many on here have waited as long or longer for custom grips or leather? The aggravation is due to the misrepresented wait time, and the complete lack of communication.

They sure don't waste any time cashing
your check, though... do they?

If it wasn't for cashing your check, you'd never know that anyone alive was still monitoring the site.

Yes, I paid more, but I didn't pay it to them. Their loss.

 

[Blueduck]

Well my check was cashed 05-22-2020, not heard a word. Politely texted two weeks ago asking for an update, no reply at all.

Funny how money coming in seems to be able to be processed quickly and efficiently, while product going out seems to be affected much more by extraneous events...

 

[dr. mordo]

I don't understand why one doesn't just buy an actual grip that performs well itself, without a prosthetic.

If I could find a grip that feels exactly like a magna+adapter, I'd buy it without hesitation. There's simply nothing more comfortable in my hand.

As for T Grips, I switched to BK Grips years back. He ships very fast and reliably, and they are simply more stable on the gun due to the extra clip.

 

[gr7070]

As for T Grips, I switched to BK Grips years back. He ships very fast and reliably, and they are simply more stable on the gun due to the extra clip.

Wait, you're saying the T grip isn't even fully, rigidly held on the grip?! Hard to fathom, but these things are even worse than I thought.