That looks awesome. All of my single actions wear Faux ivory and you are 100% right they never quite fit exactly right. But for an old guy like myself they sure look good. I wish I could share pics with you. We have similar interest in the classics. Have a good day my friend.

Mighty good looking grips. Hoss and Little Joe wil be proud you🤠🤠

You absolutely have made a gorgeous revolver. Love those grips.

Excellent! Best part is that you made it yours. Perfection can at times be overrated. 👍👍!!!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks. There is a degree of personal satisfaction in that I made them myself.

I’m glad the video doesn’t do ‘em justice so I don’t start thinking about more diy grip panels. 😂 Glad you did it! Looks really sweet. I’m one of those fellas that must smooth off the sharp bottom of the grip cuz I roll a pinky under and boy o boy does that bruise if it’s left a sharp 90. I’m can’t break the habit, it helps me control recocking with 1 hand only shooting.

Mr. Plowboy, I think you're being too hard on yourself. We learn by doing and I think you did a great job. You also learned from the experience and can do better next time you work with that material. I could see the lines you were talking about better on the left side more than the right side. And also since you mentioned it, I saw 11 Bang Bang trying out those Plowboy Special .45 Colt loads and they look mighty fierce. You should be really proud of your ability! Well Done, Sir! The gun looks Fantastic!

Don't fret the imperfections friend, it's those imperfections that makes it perfect, be proud of what you accomplished.

Thank you for the great video. Those are nice looking grips

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank You!

Those turned out beautiful. I remember watching a Santee video about him using this company's product. I went to their website and was very impressed with their offerings. I worked with real ivory many, many years back and their product appears to look very similar to the real stuff. I will probably try their products at some point. Thanks for sharing your experiences with it.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

It is always a learning curve, that is a great looking pair of grips my experience with things I do the first time the second time through will work better.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

That's my experience, too. Thanks!

Yeah that turned out a lot better than the old one. You did a much better job than a lot of people could and yeah it does look like real ivory

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Nice work, my fav colors, dark blued revolver with white grips

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you 🍻

Those grips look really nice I want to get a Griswold for my self after watching your videos

👍Up On The Grips, Southern Comfort Whiskey🥃 & Silver Bullets 'aka' Coors Light🍺 Is My Choices When Drinking Adult Beverages 🤠

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

🍻

I have a pair of "faux ivory" grips from LS Grips on my Uberti Schofield and they, too, have a "grain" in them. I also have a pair of "American Ivory"(not their "simulated ivory") 1911 grips from Boone Trading Co. and they, too, show a "grain" and they also look great for a faux ivory.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Awesome

Take it from me, a 30 year professional gunsmith. Grips can be frustrating. And though I specialized in combat handguns, I'd more than often buy grips rather than make them. So... I think you did just fine. I am proud of ya!!👍 And hoist my glass of Jim Beam in your honor. Salute!🍷

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. There was more than a little temptation to junk them after I broke the one and just buy a set of Magna Tusk.

I have done some walnut grips on a Super Blackhawk and to me it looks like you did a great job.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, very much.

Nice fit job. I did my first half dozen for free back when cause I lacked confidence. You’ve done yourself well, at least from what I see on the TV there.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Your efforts are worthwhile. Looks fine. On my own Rugers I drawfile the sides of the grip frame to be more accurately flat, and the upper frame joint is not perfect 90degrees so I leave enough material on the perimeter so I can fine tune the corner fit and not get under flush . I use a bradpoint bit to drill an accurate hole for nut and and escutcheon w/Brownells screw set.

That looks Really Nice.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I appreciate you saying so.

Looks AWSOME!!!!👌

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Looks great to me. Looks like it fits your hand well!

Nice! You did a good job on those!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks brother 🍻

Looks nice. Thanks for sharing.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, kindly.

Your not given yourself enough credit, those look damn good.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, very much.

Looks like a fine job to me. I know it can be frustrating when the job seems like an uphill battle but sucess in the end makes it well worth the time.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad I went forward with it instead of giving up when I broke one. Thanks.

Man, that is sharp as hell

Those look great!!!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you much!

Nice work sir 👍👍🙂👍👍

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir.

You did a great job. Came out beautiful plowboy. I love the white on black. This stuff seems to sand and file just like real ivory to me. I Think this stuff might be more Brittle then real ivory. But i am not sure. I have never dropped my real ivory grips....And pray to god i never do. The only way I ever made grips fit perfectly. file and sand the backstrap and grip together. Then re blue them. the grips I made using this stuff are Extremely close to my real ivory grips In looks and feel.....by the way when I get in trouble because you, garrett and Jake making me want a black hawk. I am so blaming you for starting this ruger trend plowboy. 😁

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

🤣 There's room for at least one heavy hitter .45. Colt flavored shooter😁 I've sanded the grip and the back strap together on a brass grip frame gun, but not on a blackened aluminum grip frame like the Blackhawk. ...yet.

@snappers_antique_firearms

10 ай бұрын

@@plowboysghost true there is always room for any revolver in 45 colt

Yeah I think it looks a whole lot better now too. It did turn out right nice.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I really appreciate that. 🍻

You know i don't think i have ever seen you in a ball cap lol. Those grips are really sharp.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

That means you've missed one or two videos...😁 Thanks!

THAT LOOKS AMAZING SIR YOU DONE GOOD LOVE THE LOOKS OF THE PISTOL SIR

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Kind of you. Thank you.

Those grips turned out good for your first time working with the materials.

That looks great. I have 4 ft of tiger maple I have been messing with. I have the human equivalent of bear paws for hands and I have never found a knife that could fit my hands, And I can't stand plastic on any type of tool. So I made a set of stocks for my RAT3 out of it. If I could make another thousand sets of them I could sell everyone of them. I'm making a set of grips for my TC encore Pistol now.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Sweet. Sometimes you've just got to make'em yourself.

Looks awesome! Nice work! I do know eagle grips used to make an ultra ivory grip that had "grain" and had a somewhat feel of ivory. Kinda. But compared to my 1911 real ivory grips...it wasn't even close. Take care!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I know someone has made imitation stuff with grain, besides this maker. Thanks!

beautiful gun, I have one here in England, its called THE BLUEY made by umarex lol, all I got but love her to bits.

Great Job

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Looks great!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Can't even see the Instruction Manual Written on the Gun with that Black finish.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

😁👍

Excellent work I think they look pretty damned good I would like to put them on a Bowie Knife I’m working on.⚓️🇺🇸

Grips are not easy! Great job!

@plowboysghost

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

geat job beautiful grip

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, brother.

Look good to me. I have a couple of SAA's but haven't gone down the grip rabbit hole yet.

I almost bought some of his blocks to try it out on my Blackhawk. It looks great. After talking to a couple grip makers who said they saw some Blackhawks loaded hot crack them I decided against it for this particular gun. I am ended up coming across a good deal on some real mammoth ivory that’s now being made into grips for it. I’ll be curious to see how it holds up to some of the hotter Ruger loads. Once you get some rounds on them with the hot loads I’d love an update because I’m still thinking about using his blocks for some of my guns that shoot lighter loads. By the way…. Great job on making them. I think you did an awesome job considering you’re not a grip maker.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

That's a concern of mine to a degree. They are fit to the frame snug enough that they click into place, so hopefully they won't have any slack to allow movement and cracking. We shall see. Either way, I have an idea I'll end up with some other grip frame and panels on this gun. Thanks for the kind words, brother 🍻

The grips that came on my new Blackhawk were horrible. Probably 1/8" gap. I can't believe Ruger sends guns out like that. They must not give a damn. So, this is what brought me to your page. Those grips look great, nice job, I guess I'll have to give it a try. I can't live with the crap stock grips even though my guns are tools and not safe queens, they deserve correctly fitting grips. Thanks for the video.

@plowboysghost

6 ай бұрын

Well ..I've done videos recently on the current grip frame and grip panel changes. I like both the resin ivory and the current setup better than stock

Rugers for shootin, Dickels for drinking. The grips look great! I cracked up laughing when you pulled the bisley out. (That man means business lol) I’m just gonna have to get myself a Blackhawk and that all there is to it.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Hard to argue against a Blackhawk..that for sure. Thanks!

i can see that grain, looks good brother

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

That looks very, very good..!! You have a rather short learning curve. I’d pay real money for a set that nice….

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Exceedingly kind words...thank you.

Looks great..i have similar Lett custom grips on a Ruger Bisley

I'm impressed. Those grips look great! But I think there must be a polycarbonate blend/alloy out there that would be more impact resistant--maybe not scratch resistant, but breakage resistant. There has to be. Now I want to look into it.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

I think they look great

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

I just bought some of the highest grades s+ for my Colt single action army clone from Uberti I am very impressed with it and I will be making one piece grips from them. I mean... if you have a Colt or Colt clone? it deserves one piece grips. One thing about the material is he told me it epoxies well. That is great as I will have to epoxy in a spacer block. I once made real ivory grips and ended up chipping the corner of one No way any epoxy would stick on real ivory. I like the bevel and really? it does not limit the grip area since it is more of a quarter moon with almost no material gone from the front and backstgraps. I also nickel plated the gripframe on that gun... On my three black powder Colts I nickel plated the grip frames and the cylinders and the barrels... Sorta more practical omn a BP gun but also as practice for doing my 1911 and model 19 target. One thing for sure tho... any tiny little scratch in the metal will show through.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

If I'd made them one piece for Colt clone, I wouldn't have had any problem. For a Ruger and the require holes...that's where my problem came from. Like I said...not the material's fault. It looks awesome when done. It was MY fault...as stated. With a Colt or std. pressure gun...the bevel is just fine. With my Cimarron Thunderer grip, std. pressure is just fine. With full throttle Ruger only loads in an aluminum grip framed gun? I prefer as much of a purchase on the grip as I can get.

@doranmaxwell1755

10 ай бұрын

Yeah.. I get it... done a few grips and that escutchion or whatever it is called is knurled and gives the impression that you need to make a small hole and press it in..I would likely have done the same as you. it just so happened thatg I asked him about epoxy and he said it glued well... armed with that and your experiance in cracking one I would keep that in mind and drill the hole VERY slightly undersize and then epoxy the thing in. I have been doing knife handles and mostly using bone... you have to peen over the pins that hold the grips on (along with the epoxy) And guess what? I managed to crack a grip trying to peen flush. Dobn't get around as well these days so I like doing things at my desk or the garage had to learn and relearn a lot of skills and realize that I had been doing things wrong for decades when I did do em.. work on guns and watches and furniture etc Big stuff? wasn't even much help for my son building a shed in the backyard.o@@plowboysghost

Those look really good . I am glad to hear a review from someone that is not a grip maker as well. I had been aiming to try it every since I saw Snappers video on it. I was thinking it would look good on my Blackhawk. I was also wondering how it would hold up to heavy recoil as well.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I've not shot it with them on it yet, but I'll report back when I do.

@iwsbull1417

10 ай бұрын

I will be awaiting the Ruger only report

Looks good from lower alabama.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

I do want to get into doing some things on my Guns but I am pretty Hesitant about screwing it up.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I understand that. Hard for me to roll the dice with what little money I have..

I’ve got some maple burl I’ve been wanting to use to replace the crap fake ivory grips on my great western

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Some of those I've seen are almost like a toy plastic.

Think it looks good!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

Thanks, son. 🤠🥃

I personally get the real thing or don’t get it. Out of “real” ivory or “real” stag I prefer Sambar stag (not elk). Sambar stag ages well and is VERY durable. I like my factory Ruger 3-screw and Colt new frontier wood grips.

I'm looking to put a RW gripframe in my Super Blackhawk. Not sure if I'll have buffalo horn grips or rams horn grips made for it.

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

If I go that route I will likely buy their fitted walnut or black micarta along with the grip frame.

I can see the grain!

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I wasn't sure it would show up til I watched the video myself.

You get a sponsorship from Dickel yet? edit- i wrote that before you said you went up there lol

Did it smell like coconut? Nice grips!

@plowboysghost

5 ай бұрын

😁I don't recall that

Hey Plowboy You still Got that Magnum Research BFR ? I've been looking at them and wondering if they're worth the High Price Tag. Saw that You Put out a Video 4 Years ago Featuring one. What was Your Experience with them Like?

@plowboysghost

10 ай бұрын

I don't. ..and I traded it before I got to shoot it. I want one in .475 or .500 Linebaugh, though.

@rickykeim2005

10 ай бұрын

@@plowboysghost Hey Thanks for Taking the Time to Answer. I Appreciate it.

Where you get the material

@plowboysghost

Ай бұрын

Guitar Parts and More. I don't see it on their website for revolvers, anymore.

Have you tried elk antler?

@plowboysghost

2 ай бұрын

I have on a 1911...and I will again.

@boydsteenblock1328

2 ай бұрын

@@plowboysghost I made some for my Ruger SBH and they look pretty good on there.

Over the years, I have handled a few guns with real ivory grips. They are problematical to market due to liberal laws regarding ivory. You have to be able to prove the ivory was in the country before a certain date. This is not a problem for Elmer Keith's Number 5, which is well document, but an old nickel-plated Iver Johnson revolver is another matter entirely. Bummer. I was looking into some mammoth/mastodon ivory, but as it is 10,000 years or more old, it really isn't in the sturdiest condition, so is best for display only. Bummer again. This leave the Ivorex and other imitation ivory on the market. I am planning a 3-screw Ruger project for 2024 that would have some form of ivory-ish grips. This stuff looks like it might fit the bill. I've made a few grips over the years... and repaired a few. Epoxy putty does a fair job of fixing old Colt gutta percha grips that have chips on them. Gutta percha is about as rare as ivory these days, though for different reasons. I think your grips look just fine. Just wondering, have you tried any coffee staining of the scrap parts you have left over? This might make for an interesting way of "aging" them without actually carrying them in a holster for 90 years.