Come Into Bawanna's Famous Grip Emporium

[Bawanna]

Actually even though they stick out a bit they seem to be in just the right spot strictly by chance to hit center of my palm and they don't interfere with my fingers on the left side. I don't think they are gonna hurt to shoot but I could be wrong.
Tried to set them as deep as I could without making the grip itself extra deep.
Guess we'll know when he gets em hung on there and shoots it.
I think I might be a little effected by it too or maybe just the dust in general, I get frustrated with a dust mask and it often gets tossed. I was a little off for a few days after these. Maybe my tolerances are down and I need to spend more time making sawdust to return it to proper levels?
Beats my day job by a long shot.

[OldLincoln]

He's a Marine. It don't hurt, it's Hu-rah!! A tickle at most to remind him to make it count, which is silly 'cause he's a Marine - they always make it count.

[wyntrout]

When's the Shot Show over? The seller for my Springfield was out there and his wife was handling the home front. When I broke down and called them today (after no answer on my buy), I got his daughter... she sounded sweet and laughed when I said something about waiting for a new toy.

Dang! I hope that muzzle crowning helped accuracy and isn't the reason it went back into the safe after 7 rounds! After you guys' comments, I got to wondering... how much it was fired before being lightly customized... and how old are the tritium sights... just for a reference point in future replacement. I'll try those, but may want 3-dot with a square notch instead of that low "V" rear sight.

Wynn

[Rio Lobo]

I've often thought if I could figure out a way to put nice wood grips on a Glock I'd have more money than Davy Crockett.

Would be sweet to have a PM with wood handles. Ahh the possibilities.

Bawanna,

For Kahr PMs and CWs, why not? With your abilities, you could fashion one-piece wood panels for each side of the grip with a stick-on adhesive backing -- similar to the "Decal Rubber Grips" made for the Kahr pistols, but in one-piece panels for each side, instead of Decal's two-piece panels.

I've got the adhesive Decal grips on 2 of my 3 Kahr's (PM9 Blackened DLC, PM9, and CW9) and the adhesive backing holds up well.

[Bawanna]

Ok, Rio. I'm putting you in charge of research and development. Hmm weren't you a John Wayne movie in an earlier life?

We'll have to make these wood panels wafer thin, don't want to bulk up our beloved PM's.

Thought about removing as much Polymer as possible in the grip area and then acraglasing panels in place but that would be a forever, no turning back application. If the wood cracked or damaged in any way, there'd be no fix.

Wynn, if you swap out those XS sights on your new toy, you let me know, I still have a couple 1911's that don't have em. Hate to waste a good set of sights. I can post pictures of my shins and you can kick em and I'll kick pictures of yours and we'll come up with a fair price.
SHOT ends thursday afternoon about 4 I believe. I have another guy going down tomorrow after a class, he'll have to do the expedited whirlwind visit as he'll only have about a day spread over two partial days.

[wyntrout]

I'll definitely give you first crack at them. They are the standard, not BIG dot ones, though. That rear sight just is so alien or foreign to me.

Well, I have to get to cooking... grilled lamb chops... thick, not that sissy French stuff, and yellow rice and peas for my wife's last night off.

Later!

Wynn

[Bawanna]

The standard dot is perfect on full size and mid size guns. I like the big dot on my little PM45 but my other larger guns have the standard. Little more reach with the standard dot.

Yellow rice? Hmm I'll have to ask the missus on that one.

Too darn bad you live as far as possible from me and still be on the same continent. You'd be a good place to stop about dinner time a few nights a week. Long as I don't gotta drink the grapes with ya, me and the grapes dont care much for each other. But Sheep, lamb, red meat, steelhead trout, just about anything off a grill, we're a match made in your kitchen for sure.

[wyntrout]

Your area or the coastal area up there... not on the water, of course... was where my wife wanted to move from San Antonio after she retired from the Air Force in 1996. Of course, every place up there had a view and everything was higher, so SHE decided we needed to think about the Gulf Coast and lower cost of living. I wanted the Ocean and all of the waterways, so here we are... of course there are the Naval facilities for us retirees, too.
This is a much cheerier area... more sunshine per day and much less costly... kind of a lateral in cost of living from San Antonio.
No boat for 6 years and that sucks... being so close to water. I could get a square back canoe and a small motor, but I have so many expensive hobbies already... guns and shooting, stereo and video, and computers... and all of the peripherals... lots of those!
Dang! I haven been to the range since before Thanksgiving. I'm kind of afraid something will break! All of my Kahrs were working fine the last trip to the range with each.
I still have two more months left on my range membership... then I'll start paying per visit... cutting back. I spent quite a lot of time and ammo testing and trying to get everything working reliably and now I'm afraid to "rock the boat!"

Oh, the lamb, yellow rice and peas were great... especially with my Yellowtail Merlot. The yellow rice is easy... a Mahatma Saffron Yellow Rice. It's not expensive... needs a few pats of butter and 1 2/3 cups of water brought to a boil, then covered and the heat set to low to simmer for 20 minutes... more butter is nice. I used three FAT pats of real butter tonight. We haven't used anything but butter for many years. Every time you turn around, someone is saying one or the other is bad for you... margarine or butter. I go for taste now. I take medications (60mg Lipitor) daily to take care of the cholesterol.
Up in Maine, I went without all of the "bad stuff" for whole year and my cholesterol stayed about the same... with exercise, too. So screw that stuff... I'll choose taste anytime now. We did stop buying fresh Italian or French bread, though... needs lots of butter. MMMMMmmmm... wine, bread, and butter... lots of each! we used to do that in France... and then I would drive us home... a few adventures, but no major casualties, and I always got home.

Wynn

[kyletx1911]

hey bwanna i have 3 1911s that need grips soooooooo wanna do them for me i would be honored

[Bawanna]

hey bwanna i have 3 1911s that need grips soooooooo wanna do them for me i would be honored

I'm there for ya pal. Take your patience medication, I gotta few ahead of ya but your on the list. I'll get with ya on a little more detail when your number comes up. Actually might not be too long, I'm searching for some wood on a few and waiting to find a few guns to fit to on other so I might get a set or two to you pretty soon.
They all full size frames? You like flashy or subtle?

[noslolo]

I'm Wowed! That is some fantastic workmanship!

[kyletx1911]

subtle i was thinking of sonme engraving on one set i lost my brother in 06
and i want to put him on my colt

[mad1ben2]

OldLincoln - thanks for sharing, great pictures!

Bawanna - I consider myself a wood worker but not to the level of detail you are! What can I say but "WOW!"... very impressive work... my hat's off to you! The next time I'm in the market for some 1911 grips I'd be honored to pay you to do them.

[Bawanna]

subtle i was thinking of sonme engraving on one set i lost my brother in 06
and i want to put him on my colt

Not sure what you have in mind, we could do a plate and inlay or a coin or something with whatever you want. I can't engrave or do figures as stuff, thats true art. Let me know what you got in mind and we'll make something work for sure. Count on it.
I've done a lot of remembrance pin inlays, fallen officers, that sort of thing.

mad1ben2, we'd be equally proud to build ya some. I do alot of grips that aren't 1911 also. I got a few Kahrs on the list now, done a few before. All we need is patience and some time.

[kyletx1911]

a pin sir would be ok with me or a inlay is just dandy