And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, October 2, 2022
Stabilized Siberian ICE CRACKLE BARK Mammoth Ivory grips for a 1911. Gorgeous.
They aren't cheap, for sure. Apparently they sell, though, otherwise the price would have to be lower. Makes one wonder, as well, what the story was with the mammoth that originally grew them. Must have been a totally different world. It's a cool thing to make a beautiful set of grips from something so old.
A nice piece of walnut for a custom rifle will run you double that so $600 sounds very reasonable, particularly on a $3k 1911. It took nature decades to grow that tooth, millennia to age it, and a gifted artisan to bring out the beauty.
Any competent pistolsmith can cut a slide and anybody can screw on a sight and then you still own the same gun as a thousand other guys.
Who made them?
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DeleteOuch on the price. I would rather spend that amount on a replacement slide with a RMR cut and a Holosun red dot.
DeleteThey aren't cheap, for sure. Apparently they sell, though, otherwise the price would have to be lower. Makes one wonder, as well, what the story was with the mammoth that originally grew them. Must have been a totally different world. It's a cool thing to make a beautiful set of grips from something so old.
DeleteA nice piece of walnut for a custom rifle will run you double that so $600 sounds very reasonable, particularly on a $3k 1911. It took nature decades to grow that tooth, millennia to age it, and a gifted artisan to bring out the beauty.
ReplyDeleteAny competent pistolsmith can cut a slide and anybody can screw on a sight and then you still own the same gun as a thousand other guys.
Different tastes make the world interesting. I think they're ugly. Would prefer petrified wood or redwood burl.
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