Adorned Grips

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bds32

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For sometime, I've been thinking about having my plain wooden grips enhanced with either some wood carving or some sort of decoration attached. Recently, I went to the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and I saw plenty of adorned stocks and fancy firearms. The one attached belonged to Texas Ranger Bobby Paul Doherty who was slain in the line of duty in Denton County Texas back in 1978. I liked the simplicity of the design even though the work chipped a little bit. Just wondering if anyone else out there has had some work done on wooden grips in a similar fashion and would be willing to show them off. Also, I'd be interested in any recommendations of persons who might be able to do some good work on a set of wooden grips.

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Naw, I don't think I'd ever do pewter either, but drop down to the sample tab and see the one's he/they do in mesquite wood.
 
I've never had wooden grips done, but I've had polymer grips engraved to make a barbeque gun.

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I got those at gungrips.net and wore them for several years when I was carrying a 1911 as a duty pistol. Coming through a door one day, I hit the scale on the door jamb and broke the scale. Shortly thereafter, the Sheriff issued us all M&P45 pistols and I put the 1911 away.

One of these days, I might get another pair engraved.
 
Fancy is as fancy does...

I hit the scale on the door jamb and broke the scale.
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As good a reason as any to NOT have any expensive fancying done on an EDC piece.

A "show-off" gun I can see having it done (not that I'd ever have one of those, but that's just me). But I'm kind of Bauhaus--Form Follows Function, i.e. If It Does the Job, it's Beautiful.

For those that like it, why, fine, please yourself. I'll even admire it when you show it off. But then I may ask you the "bottom line" question for any firearm: "How's it shoot??"
 
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