Micarta Stocks For SAAs?

[Shack]

Is there anyone anywhere who's looking into this?? It'd sell like hotcakes.

There are three kinds. Paper, linen and canvas. The old Westinghouse paper Micarta is still around in limited supplies I'm told. FA I do believe uses them in black and tan (off white). I think Linebaugh does too. And there are various after market 1911 grips/stocks in Micarta, but I think they not the older smooth kind.

And AMT did them in the '70s. The most beautiful AM I ever saw had the original paper Micartas in yellow. Unbelievable looks on those huge polished stainless guns.

On a Colt SAA I can think of little that would improve the looks more. Do 'um in white, black, yellow and maroon and the market would be there, in my opinion. Done right and they're on a par with ivory.

They are also virtually unbreakable.

All in the fwiw dept...

[Kid Sopris]

Sounds Sacrilegious too me...Using my kitchen counter top for grip panels.. Unless of course I could put a set on the Kitchen Sink, Nozzle Spray Gun hose !

Ivory or Wood for me !

[Shack]

Well now, let's see if we can find something neither ivory nor wood that NOBODY could object to.

..could we perchance make an exception for a 44-40 fitted with Catalin yellow grips with finger grooves in the left side...

[hwjhfs]

Micarta has been around awhile and has been used to make gun grips before. Here is a pair on an 1892 DA made in 1893. I don't know the age of them but there are Indian Head pennies on them. I have not seen micarta on a SAA before, but have seen what I call celluloid with the finger grooves. I would think that if micarta was used for other gun grips someone would have made them for the SAA. I have had a thought (I get one now and then). I am not up on the manufacture of micarta but I believe it is heat and pressure bonding the layers of material with an adhesive. Perhaps the thickness required for a SAA grip is too thick to be be manufactured?

[Shack]

Those are real attractive.

Since Micarta is man made the thickness is not a problem. It could be made in almost any configeration. Take a look at the Freedom Arms website or FAs on GB. Those are single action guns.

I think there are two problems. One is a supply of the material and two is, there's not much awareness of how good they would look on our Colts.

The difference in appearance between Micarta and John Wayne's Catalin is not that great imo.

[Walter Rego]

Here are a set of white Micarta stocks made by Hogue. They needed fitting. I first located and drilled the frame
locating pin holes. Then, with a very fine tip mechanical pencil I scribed the line around the grip frame where the
stocks were proud of the frame and sent them to Hogue. They charge something like $20-25 to remove the extra material and polish them out. They did about as perfect a job as possible without me having to remove the grip frame and send the whole assembly to someone, which I was loathe to do. They are actually aging a little, I wipe them down with Break Free when I wipe down the gun. I'm not sure what kind of Micarta they are though as they are very smooth and don't show layers or lamination.

[hwjhfs]

Nice. From the photo they look as good as ivory. Thanks.

[okcorral1881]

Collins craft grips makes micarta, Dupont corian and many other stocks!