Best Faux Ivory/Stag/Jigged Bone

[Jonah Hex]

Ok so with Rugers I like the Altamont Company's faux ivory, because it feels and looks like the real deal.
Is there a brand that makes faux ivory for pietta and uberti cap and ball revolvers. I don't really prefer the
super plasticy grips.
Specifically are there any good "jigged bone' grips?

 

[fjrdoc]

I purchased grips for my Uberti Russian through this company. They are great to do business with.

Colt Army-Uberti El Patron Grips (riverjunction.com)

 

[Jonah Hex]

Thanks Doc. Do the grips, "feel" like ivory or bone?

 

[fjrdoc]

I think that they do. The original grips were to white and shiney. I wanted a more antique look.

 

[ZUG]

I think that they do. The original grips were to white and shiney. I wanted a more antique look.View attachment 88788

Those grips look "SPIFFY" on that hand gun -- I like

 

[fjrdoc]

Thanks Zug. I'm going to be taking her along deer hunting this year.

 

[Eutycus]

I am presently making a pair of grips for one of my revolvers out of 4" PVC pipe. What does real ivory feel like?

 

[fjrdoc]

I can't answer that question Eutycus. I never handled genuine ivory.

 

[ZUG]

I have a 4" tip of a tusk and it sure does not feel like PVC pipe. Ivory micarta is close.

 

[D.Summers]

Feels a bit like a bar of quality soap, dry, and just unwrapped. Firm and somehow slick. You feel like your fingernail could groove it. But it can't. Strange and wonderful quality. But not slick when you grip it!

 

[Jonah Hex]

They do look good on that gun. If you have ever handled dried bone, thats the best thing I can compare it to

 

[Jonah Hex]

I found for all the faux ivory that if its too white, or if you want it to look more like aged bone or ivory. You can run fine grained sandpaper over the grip (just one pass or two is fine -in the same direction like the natural grain pattern that bone will get). Then wipe on and wipe off some appropriately colored minwax. I use the darkest walnut black personally. Just a tiny bit will tint the grip. It works better and easier than coffee or tea staining that you read about. However, you must be careful as it is definitely permanent.

 

[bubba.50]

Buffalo Brothers Cowboy Store has a pretty good selection.

 

[M. De Land]

I made a set of wrap around grips for one of my cartridge revolvers using moose antler and found it to be superb grip material. It's also large enough to accommodate the more area wrap around designs require. I may have to make a set of scales for the ROA or 58 Pietta one day. The corrigations in the antlers are what provide the good grip surface and great look.

 

[Treestalker]

I have carved some real ivory in the past (walrus) and it is great stuff. The closest thing to it I found (back in the day) was ivory linen micarta. The material layers replicates the natural growth line in natural ivory. Both carve excellently and the micarta is much tougher than real ivory in use. A few years back the U.S. govt. burned 4 tons of confiscated poached ivory from the black market. I thought it should have been freely distributed to artists, through the National Endowment for the Arts (non-profit). Instead the material of countless elephants was wasted forever; Government at it's finest. The elephants died for nothing; their massacre could have been immortalized in art.

 

[Eutycus]

I have often thought about "destroying confiscated ivory" thing. It serves no purpose to burn it and sure wont bring the dead elephants back. It only takes tons out of circulation and makes it that much more sought after on the black market. You are right the elephants, died for naught.