After looking at wooden , rubber, and "fake" ivory grips
I was thinking are there Aluminium grips for a Revolver ?
I didn,t find any ,so i thought can i make my own Alu grips for my 686 ?
The aluminium is from old fire hoses connection joints
first starting to make any dummy grips
with the S&W logo and my initials ,and the screw from a 357 m case
When satisfid ,then formed the model in sand ,with the dummy grips still in the sand
Both sides formed in sand
Here the oven and the mold with extra weight
ready to pour the liquid aluminium in the mold
After cooling down i seperated the mold and this is the vieuw
Here 1 the mounted grips
2 the dummy grips
3 the aluminium grips
Next step clean them and trying to fit them ,and do some sanding finetuning etc and post some pic,s from the rest off the process