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If you have one or know of a picture of one, let's see'em. Shiny new or well aged, DA or SA. Contemplating a BBQ type gun and would like to see some visual confirmation of my imagination. Please, no cheap New Orleans whorehouse pearl handled ones...

Colt SAA 3rd gen factory ivory

The ones on my Vaquero look like Ivory.

From 20 feet!

Apparently you haven't priced genuine pearl grips in a while

Colt New Frontier with genuine, fake artificial ebay plastic ivory.....

Huntsman, that is OUTSTANDING. I like being able to see the grain in those grips.

These are white linen micarta from Hogue. Not bad looking at all, with it's bit of grain visible. I picked them up from Midway a while back, they were around $100.

Just as nice as real ivory.

Not ivory, but imitation stag.

Excellent, that's what I'm talkin' about. Please, keep'em coming.

Reason for the thread is I'm getting a 1952 vintage 5 screw S&W K-38 refinished in a "Deluxe" blue. Yes, I know, rebluing hurts the collector value but this one would never be a collector item, it's a shooter which is why I got it for a good price. Lots of cosmetic issues but it is definitely a Good Shooter.

It has the diamond service stocks but I like a larger grip and with the ridiculous prices folks are asking for even ratty looking original S&W target grips I figured if I have to spend some coin anyway then why not go ahead and splurge a bit on some nice ones. Obviously "nicer" these days still means imitation ivory but I wanted to get an idea of what that might look like. Found these faux ivory ones at a reasonable price and they can be aged as well.

I like those, too.

Nice pickup, Jim!

“Please, no cheap New Orleans whorehouse pearl handled ones...“

Now that’s just hurtful. My son’s old Colt with genuine whorehouse pearl grips.
Handsome revolvers on here gentleman

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American Holly

I am considering mastodon Ivory grips for a single action I am having built. Here is a link with a few pics of ivory grips: https://singleactions.proboards.com/thread/28203/ivory-walnut

You guys digging out some nice hoglegs.

Reporter: Tell us about the pearl-handled Colt pistol you carry.

Patton: They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.

Real off the elephant.



Fake.

Great looking shootin Iron's fellas!

USFA prewar .45, Pachyderm dentine by Dan Chesiak, Simply Rugged.

Need to do over with better lighting.

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

AMERICAN HOLLY -- Get some!

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

That is a couple of beautiful colts. Adjectives can’t describe them any better. What else do you have buried in that obviously large safe.

Hmmm...

More toys.

Those are sorta one of a kind set. I don't do CAS any more, so they're not likely to get much additional wear. They were pretty classy in double Mernickle holsters. Was always proud to wear them. We were invited to an NRA meeting in Natchitoches, LA, told to go fully CAS outfitted and armed. We did get some looks... And some smiles... Good folks, gun friendly area...

DF

Third generation Colt 45 SAA, GCNM 1911, 45 ACP, Third Generation SAA in 45 ACP
Top knife Walrus Ivory, bottom knife, Buffalo horn.

Jim, please post some pics when the eagle lands.

Man, I really like yo toys...

DF

Some of you guys are real fancy pants.

My meager contribution. 29-2's and a Lew Horton .44 Special.

All faux ivory from Eagle:

The top one looks like it has realistic ivory grain in the material. Is that a different sort of false ivory from the other two? Perhaps a more expensive variety?

All three look great with the faux ivory grips.

No kidding.

Beautiful.

Bison bone.

Wow! Looks like ivory could be replaced with bison bone for grips. Nice.

TRH,

The ones on the 8 3/8" are the Kirinite variety. I don't think there's any big difference in price.

I agree that they look better but the ones I have on the 4" and the Lew Horton were bought before Kirinite was available through Eagle so I've just left them.

The best part is they also made my dick bigger.

Those look dynamite.

You can soak the faux ivory grips in tea for a few days and it will "age" them to an appropriate color, if you desire. I haven't done it, but I had a friend who did, and they looked awfully good.

I"m going to look into the Kirinite at Eagle. Thanks.

Yessir.

Dayam.

Here's some stag on an N-Frame. Back when I ordered it, I didn't like a lot of rough on my stag, so ordered it with just a little. Today, I prefer the rougher looking stag grips.

S&W revolvers. The love drug.

Lol

Elk, not ivory, but pretty nice.

DF

Very nice indeed.

Elk stag.