 Tombstone Gun Grips PO Box 2171 White City, OR 97503 USA www.TombstoneGrips.com Fax: (541)-826-8669 Email: Dave@TombstoneGrips.com 
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providing economically priced semi-finished custom grips for modern and obsolete handguns! Custom colors, conchos, medallions, and reproductions of original grips in tough 2000 psi polyurethane; extensive collection of special grips for target shooters and reproductions of originals for restoring collector pieces, with "you-fit/finish" pricing. Resists cracking, discoloration, heat, cold, and sunlight... easily carved, drilled, and sanded to fit your gun perfectly. 
Tombstone Gun Grips PO Box 2171 White City, OR 97503 |
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Tombstone Gun Grips also makes grip caps, butt plates, and spacers for stock builders and gunsmiths. The grip caps can be purchased in oversize styles that can be sanded to exact size and shape for any rifle or shotgun stock grip, and in any color. Simulated staghorn grips, special mounting screws and hardware, and special grip development services are available. Your grip can be cloned or copied in polymer, or reproduced with modifications, at a far lower cost than injection molding for single or short run production. The special benefit of the poured, molded grip production method is low initial cost of a new design or copy of an existing grip. It is ideally suited to low volume demands where mass production techniques cost too much for initial tooling and setup. The grips are not usually "read to mount", but will require fitting, alignment holes, and sometimes require finishing or polishing. Grip thickness may need to be adjusted and matched. All such fit and finish operation are easily accomplished with 20-30 minutes of relatively simple sanding, polishing and/or drilling. Some grips may fit as delivered (primarily the 1911 Colt grips and similar flat styles). Most do require a certain amount of finishing work. |
Tombstone Gun Grips are made to order from high strength polyurethane in any color, as well as in black, aged ivory, ivory, and pearl. You can have medalions embedded, or do your own scrimshaw work on smooth grips. To the right you see one of the more popular 1911 grips, the Chinese Dragon in aged ivory. This grip can be made in ivory, aged ivory, black, or any color of the rainbow on custom order. (The story of this grip was related by Ken Myers, founder of Tombstone Grips. According to Ken, the design came from a photograph of a tatoo covering the back of a Vietnamese lady of the evening, during the US Viet Nam war years, and was carved many years later into an original .45 set of grips using the photo as a guide. The mold was made from the original carving.)
A wide choice of 1911 grips is available including those with embedded Texas star in silver, coins, military insignia, carved Eagles, factory replacement double diamond, and even a rare thumbrest smooth target grip set. Any of these can be made with natural ivory color, aged ivory color, or any other color including a black simulation of Bakelite or early Rubber grip material.
The 1911 styles include factory original checkered, double diamond, triple diamond, smooth wood grain, thumbrest style, and Kimber/Colt compact double diamond. All these can be made with various medallions and in different colors or pearl effects. The material is easily sanded, filed, drilled and polished. You can carve finger grooves in the smooth grips, or make the grips thinner by sanding the backs.
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Tombstone offers grips for hundreds of modern and obsolete handguns, as well as grip caps for shotguns and rifles. If you have a broken grip or wish to replace a grip with one of a different color, just send in your old grips to have them "cloned" with modern materials. New grips can be made using an original that is chipped or broken in most cases. A mould is made from your existing grip, and a new grip is cast in the mould, picking up the checkering and patterns of your original. If your original has chips or cracks, these can be temporarily filled with a removable filler to create a mould without the missing material or crack. Custom molding service includes two options: Exclusive use, where you are the only client who can purchase the grips made in that mold, or non-exclusive use, where Tombstone Grips discounts the mold cost to pay for the right to make and sell grips from that mold.
The appearance of an older handgun and the ability to sell it for a higher price may be improved by changing from worn standard wood grips to an ivory or aged ivory set of Tombstone grips, changing a fairly uninteresting and perhaps not truely "collectable" piece into something that has more eye appeal.
This early Colt 32-20 Official Police model looked plain and uninteresting with its worn and damaged wood grips, but you may find it more interesting with the natural ivory grips installed. Other effects may be achieved with black, pearl, abalone, opal, and various solid colors. Black tends to make a gun look more "restored". Military insignia, Texas stars, coin medallions, and other embedded insignia can lend a touch of richness and special interest.
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Since Tombstone Grips are individually made to order, you can specify just about any color and it won't take any longer to get than a "standard" aged ivory or black. Even simulated wood colors can be ordered. Beautiful old pocket pistol grips can enhance the value and appeal of such guns as the S&W New Departure, H&R American, or Iver Johnson top break revolvers.
Special effects such as gutta percha, hard rubber, or Bakelite replica colors are available on request. Special colors such as "John Wayne Yellow" as well as unusual pink, violet or pale blue colors can change an ordinary handgun into a striking piece of art. |
Replacement grips for such once-popular guns as the Browning 1910/1955, Baby Browning 25 ACP, Browning 1922, and the Colt 1903 are specialties of Tombstone Grips, complimenting the hard chrome finished guns refurbished by Ford Gun Shop and others with striking faux aged ivory or original black. Old brands such as the Iver Johnson and Harrington-Richardson break-top revolvers, S&W pre-model 10 hand ejectors, and Colt Officer's models can be equipped with beautiful new grips that fit right and cost very little: because you fit them!
The remarkably low prices of Tombstone Grips are possible because the grips are made so that you have enough extra material to sand and fit them perfectly to your gun. Simple instructions tell you how to do a perfect job the first time. You'll be able to afford to fit all your guns with beautiful, tough, practical Tombstone Grips! |
Each set of grips has slightly more thickness than required, so that the grips can be sanded to an exact match with the gun for which it is made. In many cases, a grip made for one model can be fitted to another similar frame shape, as well. The polyurethane formulations used lend themselves well to scrimshaw, filing, sanding, and all the operations that might normally be done to ivory, horn, or wood. The color is molded throughout the grip, and is not removed when you sand it. You can purchase securely on the Tombstone e-Bay Store with PayPal, or any kind of bank card. When you see the payment method, the word "check" is displayed, but click the arrow on the right to bring up other payment options. Pay-Pal takes most major credit cards at no additional cost or fees to you.
Simuilated Ivory grips give a gun an additional touch of character and make it stand out from other similar guns, even those with fine wood grips. 
This Freedom Arms mini-revolver in .22 LR came with a nice set of simulated wood grips, but the natural ivory color grips from Tombstone Gun Grips make this a "one of a kind" collector's item. The polyurethane faux ivory is stronger by far than real ivory, and does not crack or split with heat, stress, and moderate impact (2000 psi tensile strength). Once sealed with ordinary car wax, it resists staining and only slightly yellows with age similar to real ivory.
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Soon, you will be able to view and order on line from an even wider selection of "stock" grips as well as customizing them to your own designs and color selections. Visit this site again, enter the secure on line store, and more grips will have been added every week until we have all 200+ grips listed! 
You can order securely with your bank card (debit or credit) or you can use PayPal with almost any card. Delivery generally takes 20 days since the grips will be made to your specific order for color and features. Different kinds of medallions and conchos can be mounted in the grip. Custom work which may include cloning your existing grips can take slightly longer, since silicone rubber molds must be created before the grips can be cloned. |
