1916 DWM grips

[SteveM]

Originally Posted by Tony Min

2. Are all grips the same? Any factory gun, any year?

As far as interchangeability goes, I have yet to find 2 Lugers that you could swap the grips and they fit perfectly.

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by SteveM

As far as interchangeability goes, I have yet to find 2 Lugers that you could swap the grips and they fit perfectly.

Steve, I bought a pair of '06 style grips from Argentina last year. I have two '06 AEs, one of each frame style. They fit my long frame model like a glove; the short frame, well, not so much.

Although Lugers follow dimension specs quite closely, there will always be a touch of difference because the tooling and machinery incorporated guidance by a machinist. Once this human factor is added, the door is open for variation, no matter how slight. It is not unusual to do a bit of hand fitting/sanding/filing to persuade grips to fit properly, whether originals or repros. But I think originals would always fit better from the start than repros.