What's out there folks ?

Thinking wood or composite will be fine for my needs rather than the exotics.

Thanks all.

What's out there? Everything. Virtually anything you can imagine is being made into 1911 handles.

Personally, I have oversize wood double diamonds on all mine, but I'm old fashioned.

High Figure Grips

Boone Trading Co.

Wood Caliber

VZ Grips

Sarge's Grips

Ahrends Grips

Alta Mont

How about real elephant ivory (pre-ban, of course), as shown below on my 1964 Colt Government Model.

Maybe some Sanbar Stag.

Or some traditional Cocobolo double diamonds.

I like these:

English Walnut

Thanks for the links High Noon.

Yessir.

I personally like Herretts skip line checkered grips. They are just smooth enough that wearing them under a shirt and against my skin all day does not rub me raw like a sharp set of checkered grips will, yet they offer enough traction that when gripped they offer good recoil control.

Magpul's work for me.

My favorite were Chip McCormick lo pros.

I like the Wilson Combat Starburst G-10 grips...................Have them on several guns.

MM

Standard Colt walnut works well and looks good.
Bob

Did someone say "grips"?



The ivories ride on my older Colt.

Herrett skips for me.

I’m a fan of VZ

You won.

look for 1911 grips on ebay...you can get naked women...or men, whichever works for you.

https://esmeralda.cc/

Never seen any i liked more than double diamonds

Bob at Cherokee Hills Exotic Grips makes the finest 1911 grips on the planet imo

Crimson Trace on both mine.

So do I. Larry doesn't make them anymore. He finally retired. But, he gets a piece of the action off every set of grips the new guy sells that took over. Larry gave him all his schematics as part of the deal. Can't remember his name, but you can find him on the internet easy enough if you look up the grips. Good guy. Talked to him for about 45 minutes on the phone a couple years ago . Larry's son did not want to take over the business.

This. ^^^^^ Hawkeye sucks eggs! Bastid! JK of course. Jealous as all get out.

I've had these for more than 40 years and they were old when I got them. A friend that has roots in the Far East said that the grips had Korean carvings on them. I don't know, I liked the way they looked then and still do. It takes a minute to figure it out, but the dragons head is just below halfway down the grip and facing towards 5:00. The other side is carved in a similar fashion.

I like the black sandpaper tape, not sure of the correct name but it is used on skateboards also.

THIS!

Nice looking grips Gent's....

Stag on Stainless

Real Ivory on Engraved Royal Blue.