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Down at the LGS one dat there was this .22 pistol laying on the counter with the cylinder locked up. After it had been played with for a while by a couple of customers I asked it it was for sale .Yup 20.00 and it was mine . It had a broken firing pin spring and 2 live rounds in it. So I replaced the spring and had a .22 pistol for a shop gun. It's an odd ball cause it has a manual safety that you flip up and it blocks the hammer. The grips were pretty ugly and didn't fit the curve of the backstrap very good so I decided to make some new ones. I had a mesquite log I've been saving for grip projects so I ripped it into slabs and ran it through the planer and came up with this piece. I thought it would make some nice grips, I guess I got lucky cause it wasn't really hard to work with.
I split it down the middle to try to make two sort of matching grips when finished they look like two different pieces of wood.
You can see the brass
castings had a lot of defects in them
Here is the manual safety in the safe position. The tab just below the firing pin rotates with the lever and blocks the hammer from going all the way down.
It's a clunker But it's got nice grips.
I split it down the middle to try to make two sort of matching grips when finished they look like two different pieces of wood.
You can see the brass
castings had a lot of defects in themHere is the manual safety in the safe position. The tab just below the firing pin rotates with the lever and blocks the hammer from going all the way down.
It's a clunker But it's got nice grips.
