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Post by bigbore5 on Apr 14, 2024 3:46:44 GMT -5
What about 2 piece frames for 1 piece grips? Just an idear I know this man is busy and has ideas coming a mile a minute not to mention the backstock of ideas after years of runnin machines for other people! Chances are if we can dream it up Ronnie has as well and maybe even made it and tried it out! Wouldn't work with the coil springs, but a spike gripframe like the gp100 would
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Post by redberens on Apr 15, 2024 22:25:54 GMT -5
A real brass trigger guard for the Ruger Bearcat
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Post by kings6 on Apr 15, 2024 22:59:14 GMT -5
If the main spring strut support was reconfigured then a two piece grip frame for the Ruger coil spring strut would work. That is what the Power Custom Two piece Colt style grip frame for Rugers works. I have used it on several custom Fugers with one piece grips.
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Post by potatojudge on Apr 15, 2024 23:42:36 GMT -5
What about 2 piece frames for 1 piece grips? Just an idear I know this man is busy and has ideas coming a mile a minute not to mention the backstock of ideas after years of runnin machines for other people! Chances are if we can dream it up Ronnie has as well and maybe even made it and tried it out! I brought this up years ago when Ronnie introduced himself to the forum. He never says no or never, but it clearly wasn't the direction he wanted to go. One piece makes for a better grip frame realistically. I think the answer here is in the grips. His tolerances are so tight it would be easy to friction fit them with a typical one piece spacer and some strong magnets for added security. Everyone already knows the grips snap on. If he works out a system of holding the blanks without a locating center hole or if he fills the hole with a plug of the same wood, they'd essentially be one piece grips which is the point of a two piece grip frame. I can't recall exactly how Roy Fishpaw works, but maybe drill the locator hole on some 1/2 inch MDF, two sided tape the blanks on top of it, then set the zero of the Y axis 1/2 inch higher. I've got some extra PJ plain walnut grips that are yet to be fit. Maybe I'll plug the holes and make the spacer as a proof of concept. Actually the ebony grips are becoming my favorite and they're super easy to blend a wood plug.
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Post by potatojudge on Apr 15, 2024 23:45:41 GMT -5
If the main spring strut support was reconfigured then a two piece grip frame for the Ruger coil spring strut would work. That is what the Power Custom Two piece Colt style grip frame for Rugers works. I have used it on several custom Fugers with one piece grips. Reminds me I have a pair of Munden Vaqueros with Power Custom two piece grip frames and Eagle ebony grips and now I'm kicking myself for not thinking to make them one piece grips years ago. A drill press, ebony dowel, and a spacer are all it'd take. Heck, the ebony dowel could be the spacer.
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Post by kings6 on Apr 15, 2024 23:52:22 GMT -5
When I was at Alan’s a couple weeks ago we made a set of one piece grips for my USFA he is working on. Alan spent a disportionate amount of time fitting the inner spacer to the inside of the backstrap. I mean apply Prussian blue, fit, see high spots and work that spot down then do it all over again. He even made sure the grain pattern of the spacer matched both grips just because that’s the way he does things.
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