Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-08-2012, 02:46 PM
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Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
That Corian is beautiful, looks like Mother Of Pearl, then it looks like Ivory, very precise work. I haven't visited for awhile and hope all had a nice Christmas and Happy New Year. I recently sold a...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
10-05-2011, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Not long ago I asked Carl/Woodnut this same question, will you teach me to make grips? Carl said yes if, you're serious! I was serious & the some of the first things I learned weren't about grip...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-27-2011, 12:57 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Everyone knows the name "John Moses Browning," and as time moves forward, anyone who appreciates his fine and long lasting work will also come to know and appreciate the fine work that Carl does to...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
12-10-2010, 04:52 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
I never know what I'm going to say when I hear you have some new work on display. Then as always, the work itself speaks out. Sure, there are many artists doing very nice work, but you are...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-25-2010, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Your usual work of artful creations are shared with us again. Actually, both grips have a distinct beauty and I be hard pressed to choose if I had to. I'll say that for me, the most natural look is...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
10-28-2010, 01:49 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Hi Carl,
I like the grips and the wood has a lot of personality. I can see some greenish vertical grain lines and bet it will polish like glass. I think it would be very good to work with using...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
10-21-2010, 11:43 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Very beautiful and just what a young girl would love to have, delicate grace on a firearm with a sting. When she turns 18, she may wear those grips/Colt to her prom!
Thanks for the welcome...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
10-02-2010, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
I've been experimenting again. The focus is inlaying Dymondwood into Dymondwood with a few other additions. Its been a lesson for me to try and incorporate techniques you have taught me and...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
09-13-2010, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Jeee Pers, what beautiful artistry. No doubt that Sniper group is very proud of their design and the manner in which you gave it the power of life. That looks almost a fine as some of the laser work...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
08-28-2010, 11:24 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
The lettering/Inlay is beautiful, so crisp yet, graceful. I've had some inlay problems from the cutting side and its all because I try to go too fast, this is slow art, you can't rush it unless the...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
08-19-2010, 12:06 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
There’s craftsmanship and then there is the Art of craftsmanship. Woodnut, you seem to take us to new levels and with you and the laser-man, there seems to be no limits to what can be achieved. I...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
07-30-2010, 11:38 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
WoodNut,
The Elk Grips and the novel Right-hand grip are beautiful, great looking grips. With some exceptions, the commercial grip market is so saturated with the Polymer and "as usual looking...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
07-09-2010, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
Thanks for the support. Now, we all know you’re willing to help anyone that wants to learn something about grip making and you can only guide so far, then the student has to figure it all...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
06-29-2010, 11:57 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Very, very nice Carl,
I think its a wonderful gift to be able to take someone’s memories of the past and enshrine them the way you have in these beautiful gift. The images that the grips portray...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
06-12-2010, 12:59 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
WoodNut,
Your absence has been noticed, you’ve been missed. I figured you’d been buried under the "Honey Do Mountain." Glad you’re back. The Ebony grips, checkering and inlay are the usual...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
06-03-2010, 01:11 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,896
Re: New Grips for my Kimber THANKS WOODNUT!
Hello,
I'm a follower and student of Sir. Carl Wallace (All Artist Deserve Respect) and if this will load, you will see that I'm learning slowly what Carl has to share. The key is, he is willing...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
06-03-2010, 12:35 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,363
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Forum: Vietnam Memories Photo Album
05-09-2010, 05:43 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 7,932
Re: Remember when when Puff was a REAL dragon ???
I was with 3/4 Marines as a Bn Scout in July 1966 and just before we left Camp Carroll (Dong Ha) to start Operation Hastings. The night before we moved out, Puff was washing down the mountain range...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
05-06-2010, 01:23 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
This Bubinga is outstanding with some nice grain contrast. They came very nice, I know the Bubinga can have the 3-D look with a high polise and I can see it here. If you get the chance with...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
05-06-2010, 01:14 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
Nice work. At first I didn't understand what you meant by a "Blank," 1911, but the images eplained it all. Are the emblems Sterling Silver? The Ebony is very attractive, in the image it...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
04-12-2010, 12:08 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Very, very nice and precise work. All the cuts and carving are sharp and clean creating a beautiful, one of a kind set of grips. Your customer is or soon will be, very proud of his property and your...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
04-05-2010, 11:45 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
This is fine work Carl, can't see any reason for a change, but the customer is always right. I would think that inking in the edges of the Badlands (Cool Name) tecture would cause the center...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
04-04-2010, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,771
New Grips, Carl Can Teach You
Hey Sarge, how does that Tommy work on a covey of Quail? Here is a pic Colts 1918 reproduction of the 1911 with lemonwood grips and my Series -80- with Dymondwood grips. Like Carl says, Never...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
04-04-2010, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,771
New Grips, Carl Can Teach
Hey Sarge, how does that Tommy work on a covey of Quail? Here is a pic Colts 1918 reproduction of the 1911 with lemonwood grips and my Series -80- with Dymondwood grips. Like Carl says, Never...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
03-21-2010, 12:35 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
Just saw the forums notification regarding this post and here I am. I know there are pics of the customer’s grips on the weapon, but I’m commenting on the first images I see which are your...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
03-19-2010, 12:08 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
How Clever and beautiful, every time you come down from that mountain, you always bring such unique ideas with you, guess I’m getting the real meaning of "DesignsByCarl." I suppose, if you...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
03-17-2010, 02:51 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Although I like the name "Wood Rock," now it seems like everytime I look at the new tecture, I get thirsty. So, JLA's "Scorched Earth," gets my vote.
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
03-03-2010, 12:35 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
pkcgbifaid,
You have a beautiful way of describing your thought about a name. Very nice picture and it does remind me of Woodnut's new tecture.
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-28-2010, 10:36 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Wally-AKA-Wallace,
That new texture is very nice, different and easy to look at like eye Candy. A name, "Wood Rock," comes to mind as it looks like rock and its created from wood.
Also, it...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-06-2010, 01:01 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: Building and customizing your 1911 grips
Carl,
There would be great difficulty in selecting a favorite set of from this collection so, I won't try. I do like those lacewood grips, they have a strong Tribal look about them. As for you...
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Forum: General Discussion
02-06-2010, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,220
Re: Prayer request
I just saw this request. Your brother, you and family are all in my prayers and I ray for the best that he will allow and never try to wonder why things og the way they do, just trust and beleive, he...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-05-2010, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
I have added a text file for you to view. The images show the really cool process for drilling perfect grip counter holes as taught to me by WoodNut AKA Carl Wallace.
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-04-2010, 11:09 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
You’re better than you think with a camera, the images are very telling yet, I know the beauty is much more dramatic when you can hold the wood/grips in your hands. It doesn’t take much of...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-04-2010, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Sweetokole,
You’re mentally sound and most of us understand what you are speaking of. I’ve found that the wood I cut is of course, one color on the outside, but when you open it up, bingo, a whole...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-01-2010, 01:28 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
When Paul Bunyun would walk through a forest the trees would run and hide. When they see Carl/Woodnut heading their way they all stand tall and proud and lower their limbs and plead…, Please Carl do...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
02-01-2010, 01:11 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Steve,
I understand and thanks for squaring me away on that point, its easy to get confused by the "Phantom," name. Still, from what you have just added in terms of description and use of...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-30-2010, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Steve, that is not your average piece of leather, looks like it was designed and made by a Lether Engineer. I visitied your site, RavenConcealmentSystems.com, that is you, right? Also visited a Glock...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-28-2010, 02:05 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Absolutely beautiful, I've never seen wood taken to such a level of craftsmanship and still, the wood is maintained within it's own, natural beauty. The wood is radiant and the blued hex grip screws...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-27-2010, 11:14 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
That is some very special wood, never seen anything like it, of course, I'm a little new at all this. You did the usual beautiful work we all have come to expect. I have finished the Bubinga...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-11-2010, 09:44 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Steve,
Ever since you mentioned Olive wood, I’ve been fascinated with it have seen several image presentations of its natural beauty and it is unique among exotic woods in my opinion. As far as...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-08-2010, 03:49 AM
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Replies: 1
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Re: New Grips!
Hi,
Came by to read up on these new grips. I visited the Kim Glass site and the lady is outstanding! The grips I saw were very, artistic and showed years of experience. On one gun, she even had...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-08-2010, 03:30 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Olive Wood, being the amature that I am, I had never heard of Olive wood, just branches. I looked around on the net and found several images of Olive wood and its very beautiful especially that Olive...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
01-06-2010, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
WoodNut is a good name, Wood-Wizard is more accurate. I followed your instructions and after about 8 hours, I have a set of grips with a mirror finish. I could shave in front of one of those grips....
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
12-30-2009, 09:29 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
This is the first set of 1911 grips I've ever made, tried before, but just much more fire wood. Then this guy Carl Wallace offered to help me, I didn't know he was a Master Grip Maker (which he...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-15-2009, 01:17 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Carl,
Just read your message and it brought to mind an interesting fact. A lot of people make their living talking and in the end, never create or accomplish anything. For some reason, as soon as...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-14-2009, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
These are some experiments with wood and how I'm learning something about the nature of the wood i'm working with. Also, i'm getting the idea of how to use the original grip as a pattern and to hand...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-14-2009, 12:46 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Must be illegal to do work this beautiful because I ain't seen the likes of it no-wheres else. I suppose that when you do it with pride and with heart, the craftmanship can withstand the scrutiny of...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-11-2009, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
40CalJoe,
Your comment is right on, I've just about decided to make this gentleman's web-site my home page, I'll be able to get there faster. This very minute, I'm working on a pair of 1911 custom...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-07-2009, 01:38 AM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
Re: How to customize your 1911 grips
Woodnut,
Very beautiful design, graceful and smooth as polished silk. The Ivory grips are unique in appearence with that sweeping curve and the Ivory grain has a nice, distingushed look about it...
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Forum: The 1911 Forum
11-01-2009, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 482
Views: 82,788
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