Dwight,
I feel a little edgy about the HK. It is very minty and minty Luger make me wonder if its been expertly redone. I might be going to the Ohio Gun Collectors Assn meeting Jan 7-8 to have Doug Smith of FGS take a look at it. I am waiting for Ken to get back with me to tell me if Doug is going to be there. When I Emailed Ken earlier, he told me that maybe Doug would be going to Germany and might miss that show. I'll skip the show if Doug isn't going to be there. Its a six hour drive in possibly bad weather and I have a lot of work to do around the house. I also recently purchased another 1914 DWM artillery with unit marks and so I am eager to show Doug that one too.
Just a very quick look at the left grip of a 1900 and a P-08 shows a humb on the P-08 at about the area where the inside of the grip comes in contact with the grip safety. But this was a quick look see. First, I will try the right hand grip to see if there are any unforseen problems. If that works, then I will take a real close look at the left hand side. If I do a good job of removing that little hump and then restain, it MIGHT work. I might have to sacrific a nice unnumbered set of original P-08 grips. That hurts. I haven't seen any difference on the outside checkering between a 1900 and a P-08. But I will also take a better look at this later. Right now, I must select a set of grips from a bunch that I have whose wear matches the wear on the gun. Heck, I gotta take a closer look in my treasure chest drawer to double check whether or not I already have a set of 1900 grips hidden in there. Somewhere in the back of my pea sized brain I have this notion that the 1900 AE that I have the 'Ideal' grips on actually came with original grips. In that case, I am golden.
Big Norm
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