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After CowboyTutt's post on Jeff Quinn's article about meeting gripmaker "Esmeralda" at the Shot Show this year, I had to check out her site again. Had been there before, and love her work - though I have never seen it in person (to my knowledge).
Well, that's going to change in about a week. Saw these on her site, and just couldn't pass them up - not with my Irish heritage. The picture is from her site:
They are for a Browning High-Power. Made of "Cocobolo Dorado" wood with a "Celtic" design. Man, these look awesome!
I'll posted pictures once I get them placed on the gun!
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You know the surprising thing to me was that the stuff she has really isn't expensive. That means alot coming from me.
I mean when you consider that a factory set of grips will run around about $50, one of her exotic peices of fancy wood I have a hard time pronouncing, is very reasonable.
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I like what I see on her site. Including the grips. I've been thinking of having a nice set made for a left handed Randall. Something with a lynx on it. From what I've seen looks like she could do a bang up job.
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The grips arrived yesterday and I installed them today. They are beautiful! They are the exact ones from the website - even down to the little traces of red in the cocobolo dorado wood.
I decided to mount these on my FM "Detective", which is a "Commander" size Hi-Power clone (4-inch barrel versus the normal 5-inch). It has a matte finish and was wearing a set of Pachmyer wrap-around finger-groove grips. I do like finger-groove grips on my carry guns, but these new grips just look too cool. I will have to take this out soon to see how it performs! I feel a gun-post coming on!
Anyway, here is the "before" picture:
And here is the after:
Neither the pictures nor my photography skills do these grips justice!
I took out this pistol Friday afternoon at lunch and burnt a box of 50 rounds. The grips were super-comfortable, and I couldn't be happier. Scored a respectable 240 out of 250 on my self-defense routine. Not bad for a gun I haven't shot in a year!
Very nice. I'm surprised to see that Esmeralda is now making grips for so many different handguns. I had always associated her work with 1911s, in the same way I associate Cary of CLC Custom Grips with Ruger handguns. I'm not much for collecting art, but the grips these people are turning out sure qualify as art in my book. I recently bought these grips from Klamoth River Woodworks for this Sistema 1911A1 that I rebuilt.
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