Char-Gar
07-09-2016, 02:07 PM
When I returned from five years in Ecuador in 1981, I brought a chunk of guayacan wood back thinking it would make some good handgun grips. A few weeks ago I sent said chunk of wood to Jake70 to makes some grips. He made me two sets of 1911 grips and I like them very much.
Guayacan is extremely hard being about 100 times harder than oak and is high in resins. This stuff will sink like a brick in water and out of water sheds water like a ducks back.
Here are the grips on my "Brush Pistol", a good Norinco 1911A1, to which I have fitted a Colt barrel, bushing, trigger and better fixed sights. It also has good Wolfe springs throughout. It is more accurate than I am, very rugged and shoots to the sights. Now it is perfected with wood grips that are as rugged as it is.
I don't do much brush popping anymore, but at home this pistol is seldom out of reach. I trust it that much.
Guayacan is extremely hard being about 100 times harder than oak and is high in resins. This stuff will sink like a brick in water and out of water sheds water like a ducks back.
Here are the grips on my "Brush Pistol", a good Norinco 1911A1, to which I have fitted a Colt barrel, bushing, trigger and better fixed sights. It also has good Wolfe springs throughout. It is more accurate than I am, very rugged and shoots to the sights. Now it is perfected with wood grips that are as rugged as it is.
I don't do much brush popping anymore, but at home this pistol is seldom out of reach. I trust it that much.