This is the sort of thing that happens when you walk by a gun show table and see a chunk of 1x2x8" hardwood for $2.
I figured it was big enough for a set of grips and I just couldn't leave it behind, so I made a set of thicker grips for my Tokarev TT-33, since the stock grips are so thin I find it's like trying to shoot one of those Archie Comic Digests you get at the grocery store checkout.
The wood is Louro Preto, and it's unfinished at this point... some final fitting, the finish (after a lot of test staining, they'll look best in natural danish oil) and then rivetting in the stock retainers to do yet.
This should probably go in Special Projects, but I don't read that forum regularly.
Bren R.
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