[ithacaartist]

I googled around a little bit after I posted. Boy, the S & W forum doesn't give them much, although a few lucked out and like them. Late 60's-early 70"s, inexpensive. The backers on these are wood--maybe walnut, maybe rosewood--which looks like composite on the finished edges, and this part is almost as thick as an ordinary walnut grip; then they added on the fake horn/plastic. The bevels make it unlikely that thinning them from the back side will result in a fit; but there's plenty of plastic that I could hog off the face for whatever surface treatment. The combination of dark wood and whitish plastic is gonna look weird. So, since I won't be "destroying history" in the process, Ive decided to reduce the face and practice some more checkering. I'll try to get some pics up to show the transition when I get around to doing this.