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Ivory grips
riverok
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where could i order custom ivory grips for a smith model 29. I would like a nice set but don't want to have to pay a fortune? As always thanks for your replies.
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How can you tell if Colt SAA ivory grips are factory? Do all factory ivory grips have medallions?
thanks
Ed
...test*
...Ive HEARD you can take a pin or unfolded paper clip and heat the tip to red hot, then apply it to the BACK of the grips one wants to
check. Polymer or the Tru-Ivory (ivory dust mixed with polymer as a binding agent) grips will melt in the pin point area touched by the red hot tip; where real ivory will not.
...A letter can be obtained from Colt that should give you all the info on how a particular gun left the factory, at a cost.
...I don't think all factory grips have/had medallions, but then the Colt revolvers are not my strong suit either.Luck...[;)]
...* Your on your own dude, I would not do this to even the backside of my ivory grips.
Just post good close up pictures.
Be your own judge if you can better live with a black spot inside your ivory grip or not knowing if it is ivory or not.
I have some ivory pieces I brought back from Africa about 1949, the source then was the government ivory market Leopoldville, Belgian Congo. I had my Father send me sets of original grips and had native carvers duplicate them in ivory at about $6 per set. Sorry folks long since gone.
...Thats, the rest of the test I did not remember [:D]...the "hair" smell, only ivory has this smell, not any of the imitations. I believe it is because of the protien composition of the ivory, such as in hair and nails. So....I guess this test does work...[^]
Look at a few pictures of ivory grips. There are only a few imitations that really look like ivory and they are much lighter in weight and consistent in grain.
Bill
...Ivory, see the caramel color running from top to bottom?...thats the "grain". Some ivory shows little or no grain though...most will show some. The grain in this pair is more pronounced than what my photog skills, or lack of, shows.
..Try flea-barf or here on GB and find some bone grips and you will see what those look like. The pic of the bone I have looks wierd and is not too good of a representation, my photog skills at work again.
...As said, ivory is slick and non porus, where bone is. Bone will have what you might call grain, but it's not caramel colored...and, well you just need to find a good pic of some bone scales; too hard to explain...[;)]
...Ivory, see the caramel color running from top to bottom?...thats the "grain". Some ivory shows little or no grain though...most will show some. The grain in this pair is more pronounced than what my photog skills, or lack of, shows.
..Try flea-barf or here on GB and find some bone grips and you will see what those look like. The pic of the bone I have looks wierd and is not too good of a representation, my photog skills at work again.
...As said, ivory is slick and non porus, where bone is porus. Bone will have what you might call grain, but it's not caramel colored...and, well you just need to find a good pic of some bone scales; too hard to explain...[;)]
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