New grips for the 1911.

[Idaho45guy]

Stopped in Twin Falls, ID on my way back from Yuma, AZ and stopped at a couple of gun shops looking for primers, powder, or bullets. One shop had some Accurate #5 that I almost bought at $38 a pound, but have never used it and thought that #7 was better for my 10mm loads.

Anyways, I saw a large display of dozens of custom 1911 grips made by a local company called Herrett's Stocks.

I saw a pair of cocobolo grips that were just stunning. $55 seemed like a lot, but they were just so beautiful and wanted to support a local company.

Put them on my Colt 1911 and they fit perfectly and really are stunning...

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[megasupermagnum]

$55 for Herrett's is a steal. I think the lowest I ever paid was $125, but that was brand new, custom for my hand. I'm not aware of a better grip maker. I should call them and see if now that they restarted the company, they will make custom Ruger grips.

[Winger Ed.]

Wow.

They remind me:
Whenever I'd come home with something like that, My Dad would look at it, ponder for a minute,
and say, "That's too nice for you. Take it back".

[rondog]

This lady makes some awesome grips for many different handguns. Not cheap though....

https://esmeralda.cc/

[Idaho45guy]

Wow.

They remind me:
Whenever I'd come home with something like that, My Dad would look at it, ponder for a minute,
and say, "That's too nice for you. Take it back".

Ha!

[T-Bird]

those look great!

[RJM52]

Herrett's has always made beautiful stocks for all kinds of handguns...

Was at the factory last May and ordered several sets of their Detective stocks for some S&W N-frame .41s...they just fit my hand better than anything else...

Bob

[cupajoe]

Very nice, Barbeque gun quality for sure.

[T-Bird]

Is a "barbeque" gun a gun you'd take to a barbeque? never heard that expression.

[contender1]

VERY, very nice looking grips there!

Herrett has been making top quality grips for a long time. And they are reasonably priced.

mega; I've found a custom grip maker (Zane Thompson) who owns "Lone Star Custom Grips" many years ago. He makes some stunningly beautiful grips for 1911's, and Ruger SA's. I just sent him a set of stabilized Dall sheep blanks to make into a set of grips for a donation to the Ruger Owners & Collectors Society fundraiser in July in Ohio. So, if you are looking for some truly great looking grips,, and yes,, "barbecue" type or even a working man's set of grips,, check his stuff out. He goes by lscg on some forums.

T-bird; A "barbecue gun" term comes from the way many decades ago,, when folks would gather for a "dress up social" usually a BBQ in Texas,, they'd wear their fanciest gun & holster set-up. It has become an adopted term to describe a fancy gun set-up worn to special events, all over the country.

[megasupermagnum]

VERY, very nice looking grips there!

Herrett has been making top quality grips for a long time. And they are reasonably priced.

mega; I've found a custom grip maker (Zane Thompson) who owns "Lone Star Custom Grips" many years ago. He makes some stunningly beautiful grips for 1911's, and Ruger SA's. I just sent him a set of stabilized Dall sheep blanks to make into a set of grips for a donation to the Ruger Owners & Collectors Society fundraiser in July in Ohio. So, if you are looking for some truly great looking grips,, and yes,, "barbecue" type or even a working man's set of grips,, check his stuff out. He goes by lscg on some forums.

T-bird; A "barbecue gun" term comes from the way many decades ago,, when folks would gather for a "dress up social" usually a BBQ in Texas,, they'd wear their fanciest gun & holster set-up. It has become an adopted term to describe a fancy gun set-up worn to special events, all over the country.

I did find Lone Star Custom Grips. They made me one for my SP101. It's very high quality, but also twice the price of Herretts, and I still think the Herrett's are better.

[lawdog941]

Very nice!

[T-Bird]

makes sense. I guess we're behind down here in Ala I'm 68, have been around guns, hunting, shooting all my life and I've never heard it. We have barbeques too, maybe we just don't wear guns to them often enough! I may adopt it and spread the news! This reminds me of watching TV cooking shows and for the last few years, I saw people eating "the quintessentially southern" dish chicken and waffles. I've lived in the deep south all my life and had never heard of it, never seen it on a menu, nothing. I asked others if they had heard of it and no one had either. Later found out it originated in Harlem. (not exactly southern).

[Der Gebirgsjager]

Walnut for me. Mostly. Usually. Uh..sometimes.


DG

[GOPHER SLAYER]

I was taking apart an office chair to get the large adjustment screw to make a rifle rest. I found these four pieces of walnut in the base. They were put there to hide the metal parts of the adjustment. I thought they would make nice grips for my" 1911. It would have taken little effort since the contour is already there. Before I could even start on the project, I was going thru a gun show and saw the pair of grips you see on my' 1911. I asked how much, the man said $7.00. What's to think about. These were already checkered. They walnut pieces are as I found them. I stopped by Buckshot's house one day and saw the zebra wood grips you see on my S&W were laying in the trash. Of course, they came home with me.

[Norske]

Lyman has had a decent selection of grips since buying Pachmayer years ago.

[45workhorse]

Pudry wood, on a Purdy gun.

(Careful with the barb b que, might get on the gun.)

[rockshooter]

Several years ago I stopped at Herrets and asked to go thru their junk box of mismatched grips. I bought several pair and really like them! At gun shows here in Idaho they're fairly common and easy to spot.
Loren

[megasupermagnum]

Lyman has had a decent selection of grips since buying Pachmayer years ago.

Years ago? Wasn't it like 50 years ago?

I like the Pachmayer presentation grips a lot. It's sad that Lyman is offering them in less and less models every year. They only offer them in a S&W K&L frame, a Ruger Redhawk, and a Ruger blackhawk. You can't even get them for an N frame anymore.

[Tazman1602]

$55 for Herrets is a steal

Art