grips
I have a set of old platic grips and one of them have turnd a little yellow and I would like to know if anyone has devised a way to blacken them rather than replace the grip.
Thank, you
Emmett
Thank, you
Emmett
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Can someone identify these for me? I haven't a clue. Thanks and Happy New Year!!! 
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Hello There are many grips made from animal products. Horn of many kinds Tusk of many kinds and Mother of Pearl is sea - shell of sort hard but easy to chip or break. It will not melt from the same test but may again crack one test is with a red hot small steel pin like an ice pick ETC horn and tusk will normally give a bad odor when RED HOT & touched to this material but will not actually melt it Plastic will melt so do this test on the back side of grip . Some of the fake stuff has gotten very good and hard to tell others "THE CHEAP " stuff you can tell from 10 foot away Some has a black plastic BACKING TO A WHITE OR SILVER GRIP [V]BONE IS HARD TO TELL UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN LOOKING AND FEELING IT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS BUT IS ALSO HARD ANOTHER KEY IS IF THE GRIPS HAVE A DESIGN CARVED INTO THEM You can see plastic is molded SMOOTH carved has tell tail cuts etc
EDIT II ivory has Grain sort of like wood and smells like Burning hair is as close as I can get It really does take looking at lots of grips over years to recognize real from fake the grain is most visual most times with the butt bottom of the grip sort of like when cutting a log the end Cross grain is easier to see than the log itself0 -
Thank you Perry shooter 0 -
Perry shooter done what you said with small soldering iron grips are not plastic bone and the other is pearl thanks for info 0 -
Great news M O pearl Is very hard to find now dont drop Hat type of pistol are they on I have a set on a1906 Colt single action also IVORY on some guns and I have three sets of ivory I bought 20 plus years ago that I ordered over size so I can fit to the pistol If I find some pistols they would look good on I you look on general Discussion forum yesterday There was a post on Colt SAA I have some of my pistols pictured Cheers Perry Shooter 0 -
The bad smell is burning hair smell. Suggest if you are shooting the guns, you replace the pearl with cheap plastic grips for the actual shooting. Thanks for the correction Bill.
You never see 100 year old stag, because very few if any grips were made of stag then.0 -
Pearl doesn't dry. It's as hard as it gets in the ocean. Pearl is brittle but very strong. 0 -
They fit colt detective special but not on. gun has the wood grips on it.thanks 0 -
Experience is the best method.
The testing described, while it may work, usually isn't practical -- particularly if you are looking at a gun you are considering purchasing.
NO WAY is anyone considering buying a firearm from me going to be allowed to start applying heat to its grips!
With a little experience looking (and feeling) the differences will become obvious to you (assuming you are getting good information -- some blow-hard telling you, "Those are real Mother of Pearl grips!" at a gun show, when they are plastic, won't help your education).0 -
Did not test grips till after purchase does. Ivory smell like bone when heated? 0 -
Like burning hair. 0
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