colt saa no grip screw
How are two piece grips attached to gun with no grip screw? Thanks
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Can you give us an example with pictures . I have 3 kinds of grips on different SAA pistols #1 a two piece type with escutcheon in both grips one screw through one ESCUTCHEON and into the Threaded ESCUTCHEON on the other side, # 2 one screw with head exposed one one side into a blind threaded grip on the other side This give a view of no screw on one side and from this side it looks like one piece grips.Then #3 true one piece grips either made from one piece of grip material or actually three pieces GLUED together. They look and act the same as one piece Grips just easier to make. 0 -
check out auction # 310259534 on GB, neither side of grips have a screw head that I can see, descrition says a unique way to attact. 0 -
They look like typical one piece single action stocks to me. A left and right stock panel glued to a spacer to form one piece stocks. Typically, in order to remove the stocks or mount them to the single action you have to remove the backstrap, which is affixed by three screws. To mount the stocks you then slide the stock's front channel onto the trigger guard frame, then position the backstrap in the rear and bottom channels of the stocks, and then insert and tighten the three backstrap screws.
They've been doing this on single Actions since 1873.0 -
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They look like typical one piece single action stocks to me. A left and right stock panel glued to a spacer to form one piece stocks.
oldcolts,
I made a pair of grips for an old SAA this way once, but always thought the originals were a single piece of wood.
Was it both? One? or the Other?
Thanks,
Rob
Thanks for the clarification, spider. I didn't know that!0 -
quote:Originally posted by RCrosby
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They look like typical one piece single action stocks to me. A left and right stock panel glued to a spacer to form one piece stocks.
oldcolts,
I made a pair of grips for an old SAA this way once, but always thought the originals were a single piece of wood.
Was it both? One? or the Other?
Thanks,
Rob
Early Colt grips were originally one single piece of walnut but custom grips of stag, pearl, ivory, etc. used a wood spacer. Still, they are referred to as "one piece" grips or stocks.0 -
Thanks for all the info. 0 -
So the spacer is under the backstrap and thus does not show? Beautiful Colt. 0 -
how do the grips stay tight? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by peddler
how do the grips stay tight?
The mortise on the grip is tightly hand-fitted to the grip frame and the front of the grip fits tightly against the revolver frame. That's why replacement grips need to be hand fitted as no two are exactly the same.0 -
quote:Originally posted by RCrosby
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They look like typical one piece single action stocks to me. A left and right stock panel glued to a spacer to form one piece stocks.
oldcolts,
I made a pair of grips for an old SAA this way once, but always thought the originals were a single piece of wood.
Was it both? One? or the Other?
Thanks,
RobThe original Colt one piece stocks, even some ivory, were truly one piece stocks with a router used to cut out the channel. From reference books I have it appears Colt started using a glued in spacer for their one piece stocks sometime during the 1873-1876 period; at least on their civilian revolvers.0
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