Come Into Bawanna's Famous Grip Emporium

[tv_racin_fan]

Oh I dint let him give me any gruff... nor did I give him any over the slight fitment issue.

Let me be clear.. they are SWEET!! I will order more.

Ya know how it is.. I put the cable to the camera up so I wouldn't missplace it... and of course I can not find it.

[OldLincoln]

It's in the last place you look.

[TheTman]

Yeah, I was to excited to get the pics out that I didn't see the residue left down around the bob until I saw the photos. I'll get that taken care of.

[TheTman]

Yeah, I was to excited to get the pics out that I didn't see the residue left down around the bob until I saw the photos. I'll get that taken care of. I was in a bit of a hurry as someone was coming buy to pick up my cat to take it to the vet.

[tv_racin_fan]

OK His n hers SP101. (she aint decided on her grip panels yet.. but mother of pearl is the front runner)





These picture do not do them justice at all.. I need to work on my photo skills for sure.

[melissa5]

Great job on those SP101 grips. I would have liked a pair of them when I had my Ruger.

[Bawanna]

OK His n hers SP101. (she aint decided on her grip panels yet.. but mother of pearl is the front runner)





These picture do not do them justice at all.. I need to work on my photo skills for sure.

According to George Patton, only a pimp on a Louisiana River Boat would carry pearl, we need ivory!

I'm seeing another set needed here. I don't do Pearl or Ivory. I might have just enough of that Box Elder like on Thetmanski's kimber left. Maybe.
We can go blonde or purple heart. Zebra wood? Time is on her side to choose I got a lot of sawdust to make.

Not to toot my horn but those look pretty fair on you gun. Far better than the plastic by a long shot.

[FLBri]

Wow ... gives me a whole new appreciation for my wheel guns. I have both a 3" barrel and a concealed hammer 2". With grips like those I might shoot them more rather than just fondle.

[muggsy]

Bawanna,
My father warned me about checkering. He said that if you did it too often that you could go blind! Are you into glasses yet?

[jeepster09]

Have you ever done checkering on just one side? I like the looks, but on my carry guns I use "tuckable in the waist band" and every checkered grip I have used digs in to the skin after several hours. How would checkered on the right grip piece look????

[Bawanna]

Bawanna,
My father warned me about checkering. He said that if you did it too often that you could go blind! Are you into glasses yet?

Oh yeah into glasses. I can't believe I checkered with the naked eye when I first started. Now I use glasses and an opti visor to see. Probably should have started out right off with the optivisor.

[Bawanna]

Have you ever done checkering on just one side? I like the looks, but on my carry guns I use "tuckable in the waist band" and every checkered grip I have used digs in to the skin after several hours. How would checkered on the right grip piece look????

The beauty of being able to checker is we can do whatever you want. I've made grips a little thicker on one side, checkered all of one side and only half the other.

Sometimes if you just cut the checkering but don't bring it to the points you get some grip benefit without the abrasiveness. You can take sandpaper and just knock off the points and achieve the same thing.

Since you only see one side at a time I doubt anyone would notice really.

I hope your not thinking checkering on that 329PD. There's plenty of challenge in those already. I've checkered revolver grips and its ok on like Smiths, don't care for it on plow handles like SAA's Ruger Blackhawks and such. I love birdshead handle single actions and they just gotta be smooth.

Try it, if we don't like it they put out heat in the wood stove.

[jeepster09]

The beauty of being able to checker is we can do whatever you want. I've made grips a little thicker on one side, checkered all of one side and only half the other.

Sometimes if you just cut the checkering but don't bring it to the points you get some grip benefit without the abrasiveness. You can take sandpaper and just knock off the points and achieve the same thing.

Since you only see one side at a time I doubt anyone would notice really.

I hope your not thinking checkering on that 329PD. There's plenty of challenge in those already. I've checkered revolver grips and its ok on like Smiths, don't care for it on plow handles like SAA's Ruger Blackhawks and such. I love birdshead handle single actions and they just gotta be smooth.

Try it, if we don't like it they put out heat in the wood stove.

No checkering for me...just curious.

[Bawanna]

Bawanna meets Osage Orange! This is a set in the works for Springer. He sent me the wood along with a plan. Thought I'd share since I wanted him to see that they are in progress. Springer a PM is forthcoming, I screwed up but don't tell nobody. Its a father / son set.
This is what the wood looked like to start. I was skeptical to say the least.



He wanted an "S" type checkering border and I used his little pattern as a template.







Crap, now I don't know if I got the pics in order or duplicated. I'll just hope for the best.

I got a few more hours to checker but it's another 3 day weekend coming up so I've had 3 in a row, so hopefully wrap these, and move on.
Osage Orange is kind of pretty given a little bit of love.

[deanp1964]

wow - very nice!