Happiness is a new gun 2

[getsome]

And after a very long time I finally finished up a set of K grips. I think the wood is Bubinga, but not certain. No long gone creatures were harmed in the process, however some tree someplace was brutally bothered in so many ways.







These are hung on my K40 mostly cause it was handy.

Guess I better post over in the emporium, I've sorely neglected that thread for quite a spell.

Now that there is a beautiful thing, my skirt’s sticking way out………

[Bawanna]

Man you outdun yourself on those. Gorgeous! If somebody could get a machine to pump those out looking that good I bed they’d sell well. I have no clue how many hours you have into those, but bet they took a looong time. Your checkering is as crisp as crisp gets.

Fitting the inside is not a lot of fun and time consuming. Checkering takes many hours but as long as you have your mind right and want to do it, it's not hard. I've often thought of buying a bunch of smooth grips from Kahr and then slimming them down and checkering or put inlays, doll them up with different stuff. Just too cost prohibitive. Good wood is hard to find around here too. Used to be a place that had tons. They went down to not much. They are building back up now but no Coco Bolo. Said their supplier couldn't get it.......

[dao]

Those look fantastic! And you did fantastic on your Classic. Mine was made in 2020, I bought it in 2020, and I paid more than double what you did. I don't regret it because I think it's worth every penny in the world of 1911, but I sure wouldn't mind it if I had paid half what I did.

[BirdsThaWord]

Fitting the inside is not a lot of fun and time consuming. Checkering takes many hours but as long as you have your mind right and want to do it, it's not hard. I've often thought of buying a bunch of smooth grips from Kahr and then slimming them down and checkering or put inlays, doll them up with different stuff. Just too cost prohibitive. Good wood is hard to find around here too. Used to be a place that had tons. They went down to not much. They are building back up now but no Coco Bolo. Said their supplier couldn't get it.......

With all of the geometry inside and out, I know it must be easy to mess up and hard to get as right as you did. Good idea about taking those smooth Kahr grips and dolling them up. Too bad they would start out costing so much from the get go or I see how you could make a thing with them. I see how you would have to “be in the zone” when checkering. Not sure how hard that wood is but I know it aint like steel, so that one moment of lost concentration would send them to the kindlin pile real quick. Kudos again!

Getting the woods...I bet it has something to do with all of the supply chain issues our fearless leaders have brought about. We are constantly having to apologize to customers where I work as the delays are down right ridiculous and frustrating to no end. It’s hard enough to sell what I sell at the prices things cost these days, then when you tell people it will be 4 mos, they want to see if they can get it quicker elsewhere. They can’t, but once they go shopping you don’t get them back too often.

[dao]

The Sig P210 Carry!!!!!!

https://www.sigsauer.com/p210-carry.html

[BirdsThaWord]

Very nice. Looks like European meets modern with those G10 grips. Very generous thumb safety and slide release ledge on there, unlike the tiny one’s you see on some.

[BirdsThaWord]

In that pic, it looks like the safety is up/on, yet the hammer is rested? Is it not like a 1911, where you can’t thumb up/on the safety without the hammer back (“cocked & locked”)?

[dao]

The Colonel can answer that. I cannot. But I wouldn't put too much stock in a marketing photo. Remember back when it was Beretta I think that included a magazine in one of their stock photos, and the rounds were loaded backwards in the mag?

edit: Looks like the MSRP might be $1300. That's about the same price as the Standard, and less than the Target. Of course it will initially jump over that, perhaps by a wide margin.

[BirdsThaWord]

The Colonel can answer that. I cannot. But I wouldn't put too much stock in a marketing photo. Remember back when it was Beretta I think that included a magazine in one of their stock photos, and the rounds were loaded backwards in the mag?

edit: Looks like the MSRP might be $1300. That's about the same price as the Standard, and less than the Target. Of course it will initially jump over that, perhaps by a wide margin.

I’d gladly take any 1 of the 3. But, I’d say the target’s line’s are more accentuated by the grips, so more like something the Italians would have designed. That would be my #1.
Lol! Never saw that Beretta ad. Wonder if somebody got canned over that one. If not, the co-workers probably never let them live it down. Maybe the Colonel with step in and let us know about the safety/hammer question.

[Bawanna]

Be right back.