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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2015, 09:08:11 PM »
Spalting (not sure I'm spelling it correctly and too lazy to do a simple web check) is a fungus that gets in the tree and leaves a pattern similar to what is in those grips.  It is very common, desirable, and sought after in maple.  Being a fungus and semi-rot, you stabilize it by filling with cyanoacrylate glue (Super Glue, Krazy Glue, Aron Alpha, etc.).
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2015, 09:28:08 PM »
I see.....they were described as 'soft' wood and I see they are now, after a site update, called 'Alder'
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2015, 07:53:20 AM »
Cool looking
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2015, 09:32:12 AM »
Spalting is zone line decay. Aka wrot.
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2015, 02:47:02 PM »
Quote from: Bic on October 10, 2015, 02:24:41 PM
Cocobolo Dorado perhaps?
https://www.esmeralda.cc/1911_full_10.htm

I might have to send this link to Santa!!!!!!  :D
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2015, 08:33:46 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on October 12, 2015, 02:47:02 PM
I might have to send this link to Santa!!!!!!  :D

Santa has these now too:

http://esmeralda.cc/products/andean-alder-aam57112

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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2015, 03:43:02 PM »
Didn't see an option for Smith and Wesson K - L or N frames but those grips of yours are sharp.
I did a dumb thing a few years ago and left Butler Creek grips on a model 65 that I traded for a 586 6" and now you can't find them anywhere. Hoping Alf might have some knowledge of a pair for sale .
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2015, 07:49:19 PM »
Yeah, she's promising some new stuff following this site upgrade...maybe K/N frames to follow?
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2015, 10:20:21 PM »
Quote from: Conagher 45 on October 30, 2015, 03:43:02 PM
Didn't see an option for Smith and Wesson K - L or N frames but those grips of yours are sharp.
I did a dumb thing a few years ago and left Butler Creek grips on a model 65 that I traded for a 586 6" and now you can't find them anywhere. Hoping Alf might have some knowledge of a pair for sale .

Ebay has some Butler Creek grips for sale. They may have what you want. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=butler+creek+grips
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Re: Cute new grips from Esmeralda..
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2015, 06:42:52 PM »
These are the grips I had in mind. It sucks that they are not made anymore. :(
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