Uh-oh...

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

... the descriptions on the regionals are so awful and vague that you can't go by the codes they suggest IMHO.

Ed, this one was certainly described all wrong. I think it may have actually helped me to win the lot.

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

Dave,
Are you sure the left grip is checkered coarser than the right?...

Yes, they are different; to make sure, I just checked with the DemBart gauge: Left grip is 18 lpi, right is 20 lpi. Coincidentally, one of my '06 AEs, the shooter with the 6" bbl I had G.T. install, arrived with similar disparity of its grips. Since they weren't numbered, I went ahead and replaced the coarse one by swapping it and a few bucks for one with the finer pattern.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

I just checked with the DemBart gauge...

Dave, I'm terrible with proper names of the tools I use...Is that a woodworking/checkering-specific tool??? I have several thread gauges, inch & Metric, and I can't get any kind of reading from them on grip checkering...

I was kind of interested in measuring the checkering on some of my Lugers & others. But with my thread gauges, I can't tell 18lpi from 20lpi...[just an example]...