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Post by crazyhorse on Jan 5, 2021 20:58:25 GMT -5
I have a palm wood log in my shop that came from a windmill palm that my Grandfather planted about 50 years ago. I would like to get some grip made out of it sometime to see what they look like.
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Post by crazycarl on Jan 5, 2021 21:07:42 GMT -5
Anybody ever used mahogany? I've got a bunch, half of it lighter, nicely ribboned mahogany & the other half, really dark, dense perfectly quartersawn, selected for use as guitar necks.
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Post by kings6 on Jan 6, 2021 0:44:11 GMT -5
Of all the different walnuts, snake wood, amboyna burl horn etc. I have had I would say my top three are highly figured walnut, Musk ox and plain ivory. While my last set of musk ox recently moved to Montana in a trade with Ben Forkin, the safe now only has walnut and old tooth grips. Oops, there is a set of Dall sheep on one gun that I forgot.
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Post by sorehandluke on Jan 6, 2021 4:38:50 GMT -5
Those are some beautiful guns. Your stuff is way out of my league. I do like the looks of old ivory but.. gone. How much is a bull elephant these days? We could just take a little off one tusk now and then, call it a tooth repair.
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Post by pacecars on Jan 6, 2021 6:46:31 GMT -5
You could go with American Holly. It looks similar to ivory and she’s like it.
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 6, 2021 7:26:40 GMT -5
Anybody ever used mahogany? I've got a bunch, half of it lighter, nicely ribboned mahogany & the other half, really dark, dense perfectly quartersawn, selected for use as guitar necks. ***** As a six year old, my grandfather took me through the pattern shop of Bullard Machine Tool. Mahogany was the primary wood for shaping patterns to mock up large casting and forgings. Mahogany is stable and easily cut. About twenty years ago I made panels from what I thought mahogany. A woodworker said the the grips probably were a species often called mahogany, that mahogany was now pretty well plundered. Whatever it is, it’s easily tooled and plain grain. Plenty of mahogany was used on yachts in an age gone by. Believe someone asked about pecan, which makes for a beautiful tree in the hickory family. An old pecan is prone to drop a huge limb unannounced. Surviving a few hurricanes may induce stress cracks which act up years later. During Hurricane Gustav I watched 60 to 90 foot pecans bend to the north like bamboo. Then, on the backside of the eye, the trees swayed south. I’ve used pecan for cooking, smoking, in sculpture and for wood heat, but I would not use it for grips. Pecan is prone to check. David Bradshaw
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jan 6, 2021 7:50:58 GMT -5
A couple of mine... not displayed in this thread yet... this is the flame maple board I recently bought... Some Alaskan Dall Sheep... A couple Mother of Pearl... These are checkered buffalo horn... Some Vintage S&W red rubber grips... Some Buckeye Burl on my Ruger Buckeye Blackhawk seems fitting...
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Post by AxeHandle on Jan 6, 2021 8:57:31 GMT -5
Don't overlook a good roll of electrical tape... Hanging in the NRA Museum in Fairfax is the late great Jim Collin's PPC gun. Competition gun of One of the best pistol shooters that ever walked the planet.
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Post by AxeHandle on Jan 6, 2021 8:58:54 GMT -5
Don't overlook a good roll of electrical tape... Hanging in the NRA Museum in Fairfax is the late great Jim Collin's PPC gun. Competition gun of One of the best pistol shooters that ever walked the planet.
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Post by adamw on Jan 6, 2021 9:25:48 GMT -5
For my first single action and first set of custom grips, I went with stabilized spalted Maple and I really like it a lot. Chad at Chig's Grips made and fitted them for me.
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Post by needsmostuff on Jan 6, 2021 9:42:00 GMT -5
Anybody ever used mahogany? Many ,many of the fine furniture woods do not transfer well into the grip world. What makes a beautiful table top is non descript in a 2x3 sized grip. The picture frame is too small to see it. I tried some mahogany , boring . Tried some cherry , boring. Just tried the oak , very borderline. For a wood grip to excite it has to be dynamic !!! Many of the EBAY grips showing up seem to be some sort of Malaysian mahogany . Well cut and fit but boring under the shine.
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Post by dhd on Jan 6, 2021 11:47:08 GMT -5
A couple of mine... not displayed in this thread yet... this is the flame maple board I recently bought... Some Alaskan Dall Sheep... A couple Mother of Pearl... These are checkered buffalo horn... Some Vintage S&W red rubber grips... Some Buckeye Burl on my Ruger Buckeye Blackhawk seems fitting... That piece of maple is nice! I believe I saw the word "Chatoyant" used for wood, here (maybe CaryC) a few years back. That piece of wood is a nice example of the word isn't it.
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Post by caryc on Jan 6, 2021 11:58:15 GMT -5
Chatoyancy in wood is that effect that gives you the kind of 3D illusion that you can see below the surface of the wood. By the way, it doesn't show up in pictures of grips.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jan 6, 2021 12:02:23 GMT -5
1st use for that wood will be inserts in my Ruger M-77 Boatpaddle... Zane is going to send it out for stabilization ( since it's an all weather rifle ) & hopefully all of the character shows through when finished... I ended up with 80" of that board... if it works out could be lots of good grip material there...
those Buckeye Burl grips I posted have got more "depth" than you can see in the pictures
BTW... love that spalted maple... I have another M-77 Ruger that has spalted maple inserts...
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Post by dhd on Jan 6, 2021 12:13:37 GMT -5
Chatoyancy in wood is that effect that gives you the kind of 3D illusion that you can see below the surface of the wood. By the way, it doesn't show up in pictures of grips. I thought I was right when I said it was a post by you when I first saw the word used to describe some grips. I'll take your word for it that it doesn't show up in pictures, but I know it's something to appreciate. I'm getting a decent collection of custom grips but none of mine are a type of wood that show it. At least none of my grips "have it". Cary, have you found chatoyancy to be specific to a species or is it just where you find it?
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