Jay Scott Grips

ithacaartist · 12-24-2012, 12:33 AM

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.

sheepherder · 12-24-2012, 07:52 AM

Now you've done it! You got me thinking...

I have some old boxes in the basement left over from our gun show days [70's/80's], when me & 3 friends (2 with FFLs) used to rent a table or two and sell stuff/guns at the regional show, 3 times a year...

I found a set of Jay Scott grips for a 1911, along with a Tyler grip for same...The Scott grips are what he called "Black Pearl" IIRC...The Tyler grip was 'imitation Ivory'...(The Tyler Ivory came with a warning about breathing the dust if you worked it, leading me to wonder just how 'imitation' they were...made from real Ivory grindings/sanding dust maybe?)...

The 'Black Pearl' doesn't photo well; it has 'depth'...The 'Ivory' grips were solid white when I got them; the instruction sheet mentioned that they would 'age' to yellow just like real ivory...They sure did...And they now show 'plies'...Very strange...

The Scott grips are only 5/16" thick; but that backing was/is really annoying...

I was into Colt medallions back then; I milled my grips to take them...The Black Pearl grips here have stainless discs inset...I guess I ran out of medallions...

12-24-2012, 12:33 AM	#1
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,372 Thanks: 7,442 Thanked 2,612 Times in 1,379 Posts	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. __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

12-24-2012, 07:52 AM	#2
sheepherder Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: ...on the 'ol Erie Canal... Posts: 8,197 Thanks: 1,416 Thanked 4,462 Times in 2,336 Posts	Now you've done it! You got me thinking... I have some old boxes in the basement left over from our gun show days [70's/80's], when me & 3 friends (2 with FFLs) used to rent a table or two and sell stuff/guns at the regional show, 3 times a year... I found a set of Jay Scott grips for a 1911, along with a Tyler grip for same...The Scott grips are what he called "Black Pearl" IIRC...The Tyler grip was 'imitation Ivory'...(The Tyler Ivory came with a warning about breathing the dust if you worked it, leading me to wonder just how 'imitation' they were...made from real Ivory grindings/sanding dust maybe?)... The 'Black Pearl' doesn't photo well; it has 'depth'...The 'Ivory' grips were solid white when I got them; the instruction sheet mentioned that they would 'age' to yellow just like real ivory...They sure did...And they now show 'plies'...Very strange... The Scott grips are only 5/16" thick; but that backing was/is really annoying... I was into Colt medallions back then; I milled my grips to take them...The Black Pearl grips here have stainless discs inset...I guess I ran out of medallions... Attached Thumbnails __________________ I like my coffee the way I like my women... ...Cold and bitter...