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Member Section => Handguns => Topic started by: Bic on July 31, 2011, 08:31:58 PM

Title: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: Bic on July 31, 2011, 08:31:58 PM
A fella on another board just bought this old Radom - ostensibly with photos of the users girfriend/wife somehow put into/under the grips.........whaddya think?

(http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff372/StuartCowley/Guns/radombb3.jpg)

(http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff372/StuartCowley/Guns/radombb2.jpg)



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Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: tombogan03884 on July 31, 2011, 09:37:32 PM
Interesting
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: CJS3 on July 31, 2011, 10:23:03 PM
I'd seen those before, but always on old war time 1911s.
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: PegLeg45 on July 31, 2011, 10:26:44 PM
There's a company in Turkey that makes custom photo grips now also. Just read about them the other night.

http://handmadegrips.com/

Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: Badgersmilk on July 31, 2011, 11:54:11 PM
Different...  Wife on one side, girlfriends on the other?   ;D
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: alfsauve on August 01, 2011, 06:59:41 AM
sisters on the left side.
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: gunman42782 on August 01, 2011, 10:24:28 AM
That is pretty cool.
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: PegLeg45 on August 01, 2011, 11:02:28 AM
Didn't someone post on here last year a story of a WWII vet that had made his own grips (similar to those in the OP) with a photo of his wife and lost track of the gun and the story was about its return to the man's family?



*As a side note, these type of original grip panels have their own collectible category called "sweetheart grips" or "trench-art grips".
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: Combat Diver on August 01, 2011, 11:12:55 AM
Nice, I miss my VIS 35.

CD
Title: Re: check out these "photo grips" ?
Post by: tt11758 on August 01, 2011, 05:13:37 PM
Quote from: Badgersmilk on July 31, 2011, 11:54:11 PM
Different...  Wife on one side, girlfriends on the other?   ;D


One way to be certain they never meet.  ;D