This morning I woke up and for some reason I just felt the need to do something to my Phantom. I took the Hogue grips off of my 45 frame and It hit me, Wooden grips. I made my wooden grips from dark walnut and they only took me about half an hour per panel to make. I just cut out the panels with a chopsaw and sanded it down to perfection. I am going to stain them tommorow, If anyone wants a pic just ask I will E-mail a couple.

smellypeople14@hotmail.com
That sounds realy neat, thanks!

s_d_t_a_g_w@hotmail.com

Lets see your handy work!

I'll show you mine if you show me yours! :blink:

But I have decent milling equipment so I did the pump handle to match the grips.
I'll take a couple close-up pics and send 'em to ya.
I don't have an active uplink, so I can't post them on the board. :(

I would show ya Pirate Jim but i dont know your e-mail adress, I sent the pics to the other two who wanted em :)

flood28@aol.com
and a question how did you mount them on the phantom i was thinking something along those lines myself

Thanx for the pics!
Hope you got mine...The front-on shot shows the angle of the pump handle. It's set 22 degrees to the right for left handed action. When I make a right-handed set, it turns 22 degrees to the left.
That, and the thumb-rest make a tremendous difference in the feel of the marker.

But you can't loan out a left-handed marker to a right handed person. They look at you like "what's with this?" when they try to shoot.

id be glad to host any pics if needed, just shoot me an email at my2porsche@yahoo.com . :D

Nice work, send the pics of when you have them stained as well...

Good job for a half hour.

Those look nice!
Can you explain what kind of wood you use, and how?
I would asume that it was like a 1/4in sheet of it.

Thanks
Paul

Hey MNPumper, I think the wood I used was dark walnut or something and it was quite a big chunk. I just drew a basic outline of what I wanted on the wood and used the old chopsaw to cut it down almost to the size I wanted so when I had the basic outline of a grip about 3 times too wide I chopped that in half and started sanding them down so that they taper off on the edges and are nice and smooth. Then I drilled the holes in the wood for the screws to go in and used a bigger drill bit to put a hole for the screws to sink into. And VOILA thats about it. I am not terribly excellent with woodwork so I kept it pretty simple and didnt carve and finger grooves or anything, but hey I like it and thats what counts. :lol:

Oh, and if you can manage to find a 1/4 or 1/2 inch sheet of really nice wood go for it! it would be much easier that way.