Dressing up my NM Blachawk.

[gunhacker]

I got this used NM .41 Magnum Blackhawk last month (only my 3rd Ruger SA revolver), and decided to try my hand at spifing it up a bit.

- Fitted a Bisley hammer by trimming down the skirt to fit regular grip frame.
- Replaced the alloy grip frame with new "in the rough" SS grip frame, fitted & polished.
- Replaced alloy ejector rod housing with steel housing.
- Replaced factory ejector rod with a Colt "Bullseye" style rod.
- Figured Claro Walnut grips, my 1st effort at grip making (but not wood working).

Overall, it was a very fun project and I think I'm getting seriously hooked on Ruger SA's.

 

[Cracker-American]

Nice job, those grips are stunning.

I put a SBH frame, in the white, on my 45LC Blackhawk. It is a regular shooter and the extra weight feels great in the hand and helps tame my H110/300 grain handloads.

I covet your round trigger guard.

 

[Lee Martin]

Wow....I like everything about that gun. And exceptional job on the grips.

 

[RugerHound]

Beautiful gun! Great work... Wow!

 

[Gregg1LE]

Outstanding work on your revolver !

 

[gunman42782]

Looks good!

 

[rugerguy]

you did a great job, and the entire "project" looks awesome, we like it.....
Nice picture!!!

 

[contender]

I have to concur with my fellow rugerits above. A very nice looking gun!

 

[americal]

you did a great job, and the entire "project" looks awesome, we like it.....
Nice picture!!!

+1

 

[ruggedruger]

Gun is beautiful, and the grips, yes, they are stunning.

 

[M'BOGO]

Well done, very nice

 

[gunhacker]

Thanks everyone, the compliments are much appreciated.

I had been putting off trying my hand at make grips for quite sometime as I was a bit intimidated by it... after this, I don't know why I was.

A while back, I found a supplier of Claro Walnut lumber "cutoffs" from a cabinet maker and bought a batch. Would you believe that the cabinet shop deliberately cut those fancy figured areas off the boards because they only wanted "nice" straight grain, and sold the cutoffs as scrap... unreal, their loss and my gain.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Sweet. I put steel gripframes on both my flattop shooter .44s and I think its the way to go. Nicely done!

 

[M'BOGO]

Thanks everyone, the compliments are much appreciated.

I had been putting off trying my hand at make grips for quite sometime as I was a bit intimidated by it... after this, I don't know why I was.

A while back, I found a supplier of Claro Walnut lumber "cutoffs" from a cabinet maker and bought a batch. Would you believe that the cabinet shop deliberately cut those fancy figured areas off the boards because they only wanted "nice" straight grain, and sold the cutoffs as scrap... unreal, their loss and my gain.

Would you share your walnut source?

 

[dlhredfoxx]

Sweet revolver! Excellent work! Very tastefully done.

 

[REP1954]

Gunhacker, They call what you have done to this gun "personalizing". So I'll just say you have a great personality

 

[Hammerdown77]

Just can't stop looking at those grips. They are perfect!

 

[41manor44]

Heck of a nice job. She's almost to pretty to carry!

 

[gunhacker]

Thanks everyone, the compliments are much appreciated.

I had been putting off trying my hand at make grips for quite sometime as I was a bit intimidated by it... after this, I don't know why I was.

A while back, I found a supplier of Claro Walnut lumber "cutoffs" from a cabinet maker and bought a batch. Would you believe that the cabinet shop deliberately cut those fancy figured areas off the boards because they only wanted "nice" straight grain, and sold the cutoffs as scrap... unreal, their loss and my gain.

Would you share your walnut source?

Sure... no secret. In Arizona there is place called Woodworkers Source that sells on the Internet: www.woodworkerssource.com

Go into the "Closeouts & Overstock" section and scroll down to the Figured Walnut 15 pcs Pack... $49.00 shipped, they basically will fill a Large size prepaid Priority Mail box with goodies.

I build out damascus knife blanks into finished knives and that is how I found them, they sell wood collectors sample pieces cut 1/2" thick, 6" long and 3" wide... perfect size for knife handles.

 

[REP1954]

we like nice knife pictures also.

 

[gunhacker]

Last year while upgrading the hard drive on my laptop and running a utility to transfer files, my photo album got an error during the copying process and I ended up with an empty folder on both the source and target hard drive... lost everything that was in my photo album folder, talk about being po'ed.

This is my latest knife project... I had a bruised and battered Buck 110 (broken blade tip and split wood) stuck away in a draw for decades.

I recently found a replacement Damascus blade on ebay, so I completely disassembled it and rebuilt it, the new wood is African Padauk.

 

[M'BOGO]

That Buck 110 came out great!

Thanks for sharing the wood source, much appreciated.

 

[Eaglestroker]

Awesome wood work, I really dig the upgrades!