ar15ed
Single-Sixer
alright, you guys be easy on me. any of you who have old colt 32 police positives know how scarce grips are for them. i recently got a nice nickel 2.5 incher, circa 1933, without grips. i have searched for a while for a decent set, and finally decided to try to make a set. i made a pair of scales for an old italian switchblade a few years ago from mammoth ivory, and they turned out pretty nice, but i quickly decided that two chunks of ivory large enough to make the grips were gonna be insanely expensive. i had looked at giraffe bone at a few knife shows, and decided to try some of it. it is almost as dense as ivory, and has a very pleasing coloration. i ordered a pair of chunks from south africa, and they took nearly 3 weeks to arrive, but they looked real nice. i got a couple of nickel grip medallions off ebay, and rounded up some nickel ferrules and a screw. after a lot of thinking and engineering, i attacked them. i think they turned out pretty good for a first attempt at something like this. i did run into one snag: the colt medallions are 33/64 diameter, and there isn't a 33/64 diameter forstner bit for sale on the face of the planet! i had to get a 14mm, and gently work it down on a belt sander. it ended up working pretty good.
anyway! here are a couple of pics. like i said, be easy on me! i have spent a bunch of hours trying to make them look like old colt grips!
anyway! here are a couple of pics. like i said, be easy on me! i have spent a bunch of hours trying to make them look like old colt grips!

