Anybody make single six grips?

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akhooters7

Single-Sixer
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I have some blanks that I would like to get made into grips. Bought them 20+ yrs ago. They were a project that my late father n law and I never got to. Would like to see that project completed. My ss is a very late production 3 screw , bought it with my fnlaw.... myfirst ruger
 

LSCG

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Thanks for the shout out guys. I no longer have an active website but my work can be seen here on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/thompsongunandknife/


OP,

Feel free to pm me here if you're interested.

Thanks,
Zane
 

5card

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Best maker is Bob Leskovec http://www.propistolgrips.com/
He is not cheap but the best!
 

mlea5150

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Chad Robinet of Chig's Grips. Very reasonably priced as well.
https://chigsgrips.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chigsgrips
 

wproct

Single-Sixer
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LSCG said:
Thanks for the shout out guys. I no longer have an active website but my work can be seen here on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/thompsongunandknife/


OP,

Feel free to pm me here if you're interested.

Thanks,
Zane

Oh my, those are some really nice grips!!
 

Rodfac

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Short of going to a custom maker, you can make up single action grips with a day's work using a drill press, sanding drums, and some file/sandpaper work. It's not terribly difficult and you can find a few posts/threads here on how to do it. I'd save the fancy wood for your 2nd attempt and start with some poplar or pine to learn the process. Here are a few of mine...the 2nd one down is a Single Six, I re-stocked in fiddle back maple. The rest I made up from Cocobola, Spalted Poplar & black and white ebony.

Best regards, Rod

 

jdowney

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Grips are easy to make. They are hard to make well.
I've made several for one of the guys here (as well as having made them for myself), and by far I now prefer having the grip frame to work from. Just not worth the compromise of working around Ruger's ever varying frames. I believe that is more a problem now than in the past, and you see it in their factory grip panels.

Back to them being easy though - yes, you really only need a drill press and some means of sawing and shaping. The more tools you have available (like a bandsaw and chopsaw) the easier it gets. I have a lot of power sanders of various types, I find a small inflatable drum sander and a 1" wide slack belt sander to be the most useful. Both do a good job of smoothing curves. Hard drums are also useful, but mostly for roughing, the hard drum leaves ridges at the edge of each pass.

The hard part is developing an eye for what looks right on the curves and the confidence to keep shaping down to those curves without worrying that you'll cut too much off and end up with a wasted effort. Those took me years to learn, but its worth it. Interestingly, learning these skills improved my work at the day job too - right is right in engineering, give up before its right and you'll be back to fix it later, sure as shooting. Too bad I could never get the professors to understand that!
 
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