1911 Grip Samples
 

Here are some 1911 grips I made for a client in Texas.

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...DSC00049-2.jpg

from left to right: buffalo horn, desert ironwood, spalted hackberry

For the same client I made these walnut grips

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...DSC00051-1.jpg

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...DSC00082-1.jpg
top: mesquite and corian
bottom: cocobolo and mesquite

Corian Grips

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w.../aDSC01184.jpg

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w.../aDSC01185.jpg

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w.../aDSC01186.jpg

Micarta Grips
 

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...DSC00234-1.jpg

Maroon linen Micarta grips


http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/DSC00163.jpg

black linen Micarta grips

I made these with a slight palm swell so the grain/layers of linen are visible like the grain on a piece of wood.

Camel Bone
 

1911 Photo Grips
 

Prototype clear acrylic 1911 grips.

During WWII GIs made clear grips from plexiglass of downed aircraft and placed a photo under the grips.

Here's my take on this.

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/c8dd93be.jpg

Very Cool! For some reason, the desert ironwood has to be one of my favorite woods! The pattern in it is really cool.

Keep up the good work!

I like the burled desert ironwood, the grain patterns are incredible.

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/a4f6ee6b.jpg


http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/1174fba6.jpg

I'm with you those are my favorite!

Dave, on the Corian grips what do you use for the shaping of them?

The spalted hackberry and mesquite grips look awesome.

I shape them with a belt sander, drum sander, orbital sander and hand sanding.

Of course I also use a band saw, router, Dremel, a drill press and buffing wheel during the process along with a couple of jigs/fixtures.

The Corian takes a lot of final sanding with multiple grades of sand paper and buffing to remove all the deep sanding marks from the belt sander. Corian requires as much final sanding and buffing as the clear acrylic grips to remove all the sanding marks and to make em smooth as glass.

I have more Corian grips in progress as well as desert ironwood, mesquite, spalted sycamore and cocobolo.

Thank you Dave!! I have a buddy that owns a countertop company and I can have all of the scraps but I did not know how to go about working them to the shape of a grip!!!:)

Just like wood.

Thanks again Dave!!:)

More Desert Ironwood grips
 

Very nice Dave!!!:)

Thank you very much. These are available on my web site.

Nice looking grips. Wish I had the nerve to try my hand at wood, but for some reason it scares me.

It's just a little bit of wood.

Nice work....

Keep them coming.:)

Man, is that ever elegant.

More grips for my Texas client:

http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/1f7509fb.jpg

Very nice work. I'm going to have to check into a set of those.

Looking good Dave!!:)

Very Nice Dave,


Clyde

There are some really beautiful grips in here! Too bad Hi-Caps aren't popular enough to be adopted by the top notch custom grip makers. :(
But I actually have a question, and couldn't find a better thread than this so..
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Here are VZ Grips' Operator II G10 grips for the Para P14. Can any expert here tell me if these are compatible with a gov. RIA Hi-Cap?

Sorry if this post has to be moved..Tapatalk sometimes isn't as easy to use as the desktop forum

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I cannot comment on the VZ grips for the P-14 but I can tell you that the P-14 grips from Hogue fit very well on my RIA Wide Body Longslide!!

The grips below are Hogue Pau Ferro Para Ordnance P-14 grips. They actually look better in person than in the picture!!
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...20110811_1.jpg
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p...20110811_2.jpg

Thanks Mag.. hopefully it'll be a go..those hogues are great too by the way. But I'm looking for a 2nd set of grips I can swap out. I'll use the rubber for when I'm using my pistol as a hunting sidearm, and the micarta for when she's guarding the nightstand.

I'll let you know what happens :p

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