My first buckeye burl

[LongBaller71]

Originally Posted by Peter B

...Another great grip wood is the lowly maple. It can be single dyed. It also has many patterns of burl, fiddle, feather, tortoise shell and great spalted patterns on top of everything else.

Have to love the lowly old maple!

[LSCG]

Originally Posted by LongBaller71

Those box elders are awesome looking. I'm a big fan of using a wood's natural beauty. The man upstairs has some little masterpieces in almost every piece. That being said, the dyed grips are sometimes just too dang cool!

Another crazy wood I just worked up was some cross cut spalted ash. These things are oozing coolness. Really wish I had more of those blanks.

those look amazing, i love bookmatched grips.

[LongBaller71]

Thanks, Mike! I'm loving them too. My problem now is that I don't have enough 1911s to sport them all!! Only one way to solve that. LoL!

[Olympus]

Originally Posted by LongBaller71

Thanks, Mike! I'm loving them too. My problem now is that I don't have enough 1911s to sport them all!! Only one way to solve that. LoL!

I've got the exact same problem.