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The high quality imitation ivory usually looks about as nice as the real stuff. You have to look close for the grain in order to tell.

Nice. Real ivory?

I was hoping someone would recognize the source of that.

Why not make your own?

https://guitarpartsandmore.com/mainCategory.php?Resin-Ivory-trade-Rounds-and-Slabs-59

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Wow! They really do look like ivory.

Making my own stuff would be a lot less expensive in many endeavors but unfortunately I have the artisanship of a backwards 3 year old. Give me some sandpaper and a file and I can pretty much wreck anything.

THOSE are a great fit! Nice craftsmanship.

for sale in classifieds

here's that colt .22 of mine again. In an old Lawrence holster I picked up on the classifieds from ajgunner.

I have pretty nice grips on my Ruger 45/45acp.
They are Eagle Sambar Stag with very little bark. But I don’t know how to post photos anymore and I’m to tired to figure it out.

Imitation ivory from Eagle grips:

Same on my 32 H&R and Old Model 45 Colt conversion.

Got to handle this pair of Ed McGivern Colt revolvers factory custom with factory elephant ivory.
Needless to say they were a bit out of my price range.
Sure could feel the history when held...

Mmmm-mmm, those are gorgeous! I like that aged color to them


Ordered the grips yesterday and chose the aged option plus having a set of S&W medallions installed. Obviously won't have that grained look but the color should be close.

Very cool. I love his book, Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting.

A guy I know has this one.

Beautiful!

Give it 40 years and it may look like this. White Micarta on a three screw, older Blackhawk .45 Colt fitted with a Superblackhawk frame, hammer and trigger, then blued. It has aftermarket steel rear sight.

The micarta sorta yellowed over the years, not too unlike real dead elephant.

DF

Back when I was into Cowboy Action Shooting, I picked up a pair of Gen 3 Colts in .38 Spec from a SASS member in TX. He had bought them new, had a retired Weatherby engraver living in TX engrave them. I sent them to Nutmeg Sports for real dead elephant grips with deep dish medallions They were shaped like a set of one piece rosewood grips I had previously done with deep dish medallions. Those fit me very well and Nugmeg reproduced that shape..

I think these Colts have the nicest, almost irridescent case colors of about any Gen 3 guns I've seen.

Last photo is the rosewood grip I sent to Nugmeg to be duplicated. That set had been sent to Errol Case in MO for carving and checkering. They are on a Gen 3 .357 pair that my son now has.

DF