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 Advance your 1911 to the next caliber with some real grips!

It’s hard to beat the timeless combination of wood and steel. We carefully select and match the most prized traditional and exotic hardwoods to give you the best grip. From wood figure to inlays, be sure to showcase your next day at the range. 
  
Each set of grips we craft is a one-of-a-kind pair and is shown in the photographs for each listing. The grips you see are the grips you receive.

Our thorough hand finishing process seals the grips and brings out the amazing depth of color and shifting grain hues in these select woods!

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- Checkering Styles -

Diamond

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Skip Checkering

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Herringbone

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Star Diamond

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- Wood Species -

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African Mahogany

This exotic wood has a deep reddish brown color.  The grain can be straight, but is typically interlocking with a shimmering figure.

Specific Gravity: 0.53
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Bastogne Walnut

This is a rare hybrid wood resulting from a cross between an English Walnut and a Black Walnut species.  It is a hard wood with tight pores and can have some beautiful figure.

Specific Gravity: 0.64

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Birdseye Hard Maple

This domestic wood is an anomaly of hard maple.  The birdseye swirls give it a shimmering mysterious character.

Specific Gravity: 0.72
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Black Cherry

This domestic wood has a fine grain.  After machining the heartwood darkens in time into a rich color.

Specific Gravity: 0.58
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Black Walnut

This domestic wood is hard and often used in gunstocks.  The grain can include a spectacular shimmering figure.

Specific Gravity: 0.64
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Bloodwood

This exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. This wood is very dense, with a tight fine, mostly linear grain.

Specific Gravity: 0.96

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Bolivian Rosewood

This exotic wood has several tones of brown that include frequent black striping.  It is also very hard.

Specific Gravity: 0.84
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Cocobolo

This exotic wood is very durable and strong, and has a fine texture.  It ranges in color from dark red to reddish brown, with an irregular grain pattern.

Specific Gravity: 1.10
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Colorado Blue Pine

This domestic wood is also know as beetle kill pine since it is killed and stained blue by the mountain pine beetle.

Specific Gravity: 0.40

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Curly Maple

This variation of Maple has ripples in the grain pattern that create a three dimensional effect that appears as if the grain has “curled” along the length of the board.  It is also know as fiddleback.

Specific Gravity: 0.53-0.72

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Desert Ironwood

This domestic wood is very dense and has a color that ranges from an orangish yellow to a darker red or brown, which also including dark streaks.

Specific Gravity: 1.21
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Desert Ironwood Burl

These rare Ironwood burls are very unique and often have great chatoyance.

Specific Gravity: 1.21
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East Indian Rosewood

This exotic wood is hard and dense.  It's color ranges from a golden brown to a dark purple brown.

Specific Gravity: 0.85
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English Walnut

This hard wood can contain fabulous dark marblecake figure and is often used in gunstocks.  The grain is normally tight and holds checkering well.

Specific Gravity: 0.64
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Gaboon Ebony

This rare exotic wood is extremely hard, dense, and heavy with a very fine texture.  The heartwood is a uniform jet-black or black-brown streaked.

Specific Gravity: 1.03
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Hard Maple

This domestic wood has a dense grain that can include a variety of figuring as well as dark mineral streaks.

Specific Gravity: 0.72
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Holly

This domestic wood is rare due to the slow growth rate and small size of trees.  It has a close grain and is "as white as wood comes".

Specific Gravity: 0.61

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Honduras Rosewood

This exotic wood can have deep rich colors that give an attractive appearance.

Specific Gravity: 0.96
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Macassar Ebony

This rare exotic wood is extremely hard and dense.  It has a beautiful black grain with subtle striping and figure.

Specific Gravity: 1.09

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Padauk

This exotic wood has a rich orange to almost crimson color.  It also has a larger grain and is very stable.

Specific Gravity: 0.72

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Purpleheart

This exotic wood can have a wavy or interlocking grain.  Its color can be or contain various shades of purple.

Specific Gravity: 0.86
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Satinwoood

This exotic wood ranges from a light golden yellow to orangish brown.  It's frequently seen with a mottled or rippled grain pattern, resembling ripples in satin fabric.




Specific Gravity: 0.90

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Serpentwood (Marblewood)

This exotic wood has a golden brown interlocking grain with a distictive pattering of thin dark lines.

Specific Gravity: 0.85
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Spalted Maple

This variation of Maple has spalting which gives the wood dark contrasting lines and streaks.

Specific Gravity: 0.53-0.72 (more if stabilized)
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Sucupira

This exotic wood has a very high density and an interlocked grain. Its color ranges from dull chocolate to a reddish-brown.

Specific Gravity: 1.00
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Tigerwood (Goncalo Alves)

This exotic wood is hard and ranges in color from light to deep reddish-brown.

Specific Gravity: 0.95
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Turkish Walnut

This hardwood is of the same species as English Walnut, however the mineral content in the Turkish soil gives the wood a different color.  It tends to have a range from light honey to a subtle orange cast.  It can also have the fabulous dark marblecake figure.

Specific Gravity: 0.64
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Zebrawood

This exotic wood is hard with a medium to coarse texture.  The grain has a striking light and dark color contrast.

Specific Gravity: 0.74

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