The grips just arrived from Michael and are beautiful. The work he did is absolutely phenomenal. (Thank you guys for pointing me his direction....what a great guy that truly takes pride in his work. He actually had to make a new 3D mold to do this cut because my grips were of the slim type. VERY impressive high quality work!)
I have a little dilemma here. Yes, I fully admit that I am being a bit picky here, but I guess that is why we are willing to spend this kind of money on our custom 1911s to get them done
'just-the-exact-picky way-we-like-them' ;-)
While the sunburst texture was applied, the upper layer that was dyed with red color was apparently taken off and the grips are now showing the natural brown/orange-ish cocobolo color. I know that many purists would suggest to keep it as is (nothing wrong with that and they are beautiful), but I want to have the cake and eat it too, lol !
In my mind - I was envisioning my original colored black/red grips with added sunburst pattern, but did not know that I was going to lose the original color. Do any of you have experience with dying of wooden grips? I do not want to chance anything and I do not want to potentially destroy these gorgeous grips,
but if possible - I
would love to make them red/black again or send them off to someone that does that type of work.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated?
Edit:
- I talked just to Bob Serva, the owner of Fusion Firearms and he told me
that their grips are hand selected and made by a company in Costa Rica.
He is going to try to find out as far as what is the dying agent. My only hope is
that I will be able to source it here in the States.
