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Colt 1873 Smooth
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Code: Colt_54c
Price: $68.00
Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
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This is a more or less Generic size of Single Action grip (compare dimensions listed or send tracing to see if it is a good match). It can fit a wide range of other Colt clones from Hawes, Pietta, Uberti, and so forth depending on the specific gun's dimensions. If you trace around your gun's grip frame, cut out the tracing and fit it on your gun, and then mail it to me, I can hold it up to the back of a grip made in this mold and see if there is enough extra so you can easily sand the edges to a perfect fit -- or not!
A 3 x 5 index card (recipe card) is perfect for making this template or pattern. It is thin enough so that the edges are easy to match, and thick enough so the paper isn't floppy and hard to hold on the back of a test grip or mold. Sometimes people think they are helping even more by sending transparencies, thick corrugated box paper, impressions in foam, and so forth. But believe me, the BEST possible thing is to make a "paper grip" using 3 x 5 index card stock or substantially the same material. Anything else might SEEM like a great idea but in reality, I've run into all sorts of problems trying to use these "improved" ideas of a pattern. Just send the cut-out index card pattern. I know for a fact that it will work fine.
Also, save yourself some time and money by NOT buying expensive packaging for it. Just drop the tracing in a regular envelope and mail it first class. There's no point in heavy padded priority packaging or overnight delivery. I make grips on week ends as a sort of hobby business. I get buried alive in orders. My average delivery time may be over 90 days sometimes, other times I can get more done quickly. So overnight shipping of the pattern is a waste of your money, and expensive packaging doesn't really help a paper pattern get here in better shape than it usually will. But be sure to put your order number on it, so I know right away where to look up your information. If you have not orered yet, please note "no order pending" or some such, so that I won't spend hours searching for a non-existent email order, a missing letter that really was never received, or a non-existent web store order.
Here is the dimension to match with your gun frame:
- (A) Front edge length = 1.0 inch
- (B) Overall height = 3.18 inches (front edge)
- (C) Width across the base = 2.15 inches
- (D) Center of front straight back to rear edge = 1.70 inches
- (E) Length of the top edge = 1.20 inches
- Height from base to top where rear edge curve starts = 3.05 inches
- Narrow part of the neck (front to back) 1.3 inches
- Thickness at top = 0.31 inches
- Thickness at the base = 0.52 inches
Tbis grip can be ordered as a 1-piece kit with a spaccer (for Colts and clones that have a removable back strap), or as a 2-piece kit with a screw mount (for any single action, solid frame or not). Just check the appropriate option. The same grip panels are included, but the 1-piece kit has the spacer which you epoxy glue to one grip panel after aligning the grip on the gun frame, let the epoxy set, and then glue the other panel to the spacer. The 1-piece grip spacer is carefully sanded to the exact thickness of your gun frame. Then the two grip panels are held firmly in place when you fit the back strap to the gun with the grip in place.
The two piece screw mount kit on the other hand will fit any style of gun frame, not just the ones with removable back strap. There are two methods of holding it firmly in place. The top and front edge bears against the frame, in both kinds of mounting. The screw holds the panels against the frame, but to keep the grips from slipping down or rearward, a pin projecting from the frame, or the head of a short screw mounted in the back of the grip to match a hole in the gun frame, will keep the grip from moving. Another way to block the downward and backward motion is to install a short pin or a screw with the head just above the rear grip surface, so that it bears against the rear bottom inside corner of the frame. This block both downward and rearward movement when the grips are installed.
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