greyling22
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Attached is a pic I took of some 1911 grips I made out of australian myrtle I got off ebay.
here is my first attempt at making grips. I used redwood I got off ebay. Beautiful grips, but the wood was too soft and I wasn't all that skilled. I used a belt sander for all the rough sanding, then worked by hand. I drilled holes with regular bits in a cordless drill, then squared off the bottoms with a small router tip on a dremel tool. They wound up on a beater mk1 http://imgur.com/bCZGDZh,fOGU785,BOPNah9,WCZc45L,BXRZJwC#4
Here is the same process on a piece of walnut I found in a garage. I never took a final picture of them all finished out, but the woodwork was mostly photographed. http://imgur.com/a/ZNtkB
here is my first attempt at making grips. I used redwood I got off ebay. Beautiful grips, but the wood was too soft and I wasn't all that skilled. I used a belt sander for all the rough sanding, then worked by hand. I drilled holes with regular bits in a cordless drill, then squared off the bottoms with a small router tip on a dremel tool. They wound up on a beater mk1 http://imgur.com/bCZGDZh,fOGU785,BOPNah9,WCZc45L,BXRZJwC#4
Here is the same process on a piece of walnut I found in a garage. I never took a final picture of them all finished out, but the woodwork was mostly photographed. http://imgur.com/a/ZNtkB
