I wouldn't worry about negotiating, presuming that the post was intended to be helpfully informative to the Luger collecting community. Jan's forum might be a little more formal than this one, but the overlap in membership would indicate its spirit is the same in this respect. I'd say unless it was specifically prohibited, the info/observations were meant to help all of us. And providing a link will give credit where credit is due.

But this isn't Jan's forum. An annoyed member over there might consider it plagiarism. :rolleyes:

And there are a lot of annoyed members over there... :D

EASY...Just post a link here to the tutorial on Jan's forum... with a subject line of "Link to Tutorial on Bakelite Grips"

I'm a member there, too, but infrequently visit because there's usually not enough time in a day to do so. Thus, I'm unaware of anyone that's annoyed by cross-posting or links to posts/threads there by people here. If someone is in need of soothing there, we never hear about it here. Why would anyone post good info in the spirit of helping out the community as a whole be annoyed by links to it, presumably by someone who has dual membership?:confused:

I forget which forum I'm looking at, at least twice a day.
When I can't find something I posted or read, it is always on the "other forum". ;)

I found a 'sticky' entitled Black Grips Data Request, 13 pages long... :rolleyes:

http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...S-DATA-REQUEST

I'm finished pg 13 and have found references to six different 'tests' for Bakelite grips... :D

OK! Jan's Forum has it all! Everything you could ask for to determine if your grips are Bakelite! :)

(1) The Hot Pin test
(2) The Hot Water test
(3) The 'Castanet'/'Clink' test
(4) The Simichrome Test
(5) The Friction/Smell Test
(6) The 409 Test

What more could anyone ask for??? :p

Yes those test will prove Bakelite for sure. Problem is there are grips out there that are not correct and not German Military that appear to be Black Widow grips and they ARE made of Backlite! Pretty easy to spot once you know what to look for and they are a bit too crude to fool anyone that studies the subject. I believe these false grips were made early post war for who knows what reason, but way too early to be an outright modern fake grip made for monetary gain. These are documented on the Jan Still Forum Black Widow grips sticky.

Please post the link for our enlightenment. :thumbup: