Finius
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I decided to make a new thread, just because I didn't want to double post, or edit my other post, and I feel these actually deserve some real attention.
On Monday, Jeandup, or just Jean got in touch with me on here to ask if I'd review some grips for him, he'd already sent me one set of grips -
- which get raved at wherever I go as being pretty much the most beautiful things on the planet, I've not yet found a set of grips which make me challenge people when they tell me I have the best.
So I was more than happy to have a go at a second set.
They arrived today, I haven't pictured the envelope as it's as you'd expect an envelope to be, as in, it contained things. Things of wonderment and brilliance my friends, like the one ring from Tolkeins classic novel, these things make me want to be all Gollumesque and just start whispering sweet lullabies to my 1911.
Within the envelope, the display box they're in was wrapped in a polythene sandwich bag (the real name for those bags with the air and water tight seals that you press together escapes me).
The box itself hasn't changed much, except it has "customgrips.co.uk" bottom center, it looks classy but not overdone, just how Finius likes his boxes.
But what's this, I hear you say! The box appears to be wearing some sort of bracelet! Why yes it does friends!
Turning over the box, I was surprised to find this:
It's not much, just a laser engraved tag with Custom Grips on, but, whilst it quite rightly isn't much, it's a lot. It elevates the feeling of quality you're seeing, I like it, even if it serves no purpose (the string does, it keeps the lid on in the post); it's an extra little piece that says to me "the guy who made these cares about getting everything 100%".
Now friends! Let us journey, into the depths of this display box! Upon opening the box, you are presented with this (ignore the lid on the left, we're on about the right-half):
Upon removing everything from the box, I had these:
One small bottle on boiled-linseed-oil
One cloth, presumably suited to safeguard against the combustability of said linseed oil
One piece of steel wool type stuff (not pictured, bagged with the cloth)
One pair of latex gloves, again, for use with the linseed oil
One pair of wood grips, with foam guards
The maintenance supplies are fairly standard, the linseed oil has been labelled, which is nice:
Moving swiftly on. The grips are like the David (as in the sculpture, not the local white van man) of the pistol grip world. Let's take a look shall we.
The front of the grips are finished nicely, very crisp engraving and the other texture work is near perfect. There's no dings or flaws anywhere, they feel nice and they're generally perfect. All the edges are very nicely rounded off with no chips. The wood is definitely of good quality.
Here's how the laser engraving looks close up:
As sharp as a drunken maths teachers tongue.
Upon turning the grips over, I found the following surprise:
Trademarks! Finius loves himself some trademarks! They're clean, well engraved and again, show some pride in the work that's been undertaken.
I neglected to photograph the rear mounting holes on the grips, but mine were nice and loose, with the screw-holes spot on in the middle, this means that the grips should fit literally ANY 1911 mountings, no matter how big or small, as the grips are adjusted into position by the screw itself, not the mounting holes. The only thing I did note was that to get a nice fit for the screws I had to dremel out .5mm round the edges of each hole, the screws would have gone through I think, but I was just paranoid about splitting the grips before I'd completed the review.
And finally, here's two pictures of them mounted to my pistol:
Real colouration may vary from what you see unless your monitor has been specifically set-up for print/photo editing purposes.
On Monday, Jeandup, or just Jean got in touch with me on here to ask if I'd review some grips for him, he'd already sent me one set of grips -
- which get raved at wherever I go as being pretty much the most beautiful things on the planet, I've not yet found a set of grips which make me challenge people when they tell me I have the best.
So I was more than happy to have a go at a second set.
They arrived today, I haven't pictured the envelope as it's as you'd expect an envelope to be, as in, it contained things. Things of wonderment and brilliance my friends, like the one ring from Tolkeins classic novel, these things make me want to be all Gollumesque and just start whispering sweet lullabies to my 1911.
Within the envelope, the display box they're in was wrapped in a polythene sandwich bag (the real name for those bags with the air and water tight seals that you press together escapes me).
The box itself hasn't changed much, except it has "customgrips.co.uk" bottom center, it looks classy but not overdone, just how Finius likes his boxes.
But what's this, I hear you say! The box appears to be wearing some sort of bracelet! Why yes it does friends!
Turning over the box, I was surprised to find this:
It's not much, just a laser engraved tag with Custom Grips on, but, whilst it quite rightly isn't much, it's a lot. It elevates the feeling of quality you're seeing, I like it, even if it serves no purpose (the string does, it keeps the lid on in the post); it's an extra little piece that says to me "the guy who made these cares about getting everything 100%".
Now friends! Let us journey, into the depths of this display box! Upon opening the box, you are presented with this (ignore the lid on the left, we're on about the right-half):
Upon removing everything from the box, I had these:
One small bottle on boiled-linseed-oil
One cloth, presumably suited to safeguard against the combustability of said linseed oil
One piece of steel wool type stuff (not pictured, bagged with the cloth)
One pair of latex gloves, again, for use with the linseed oil
One pair of wood grips, with foam guards
The maintenance supplies are fairly standard, the linseed oil has been labelled, which is nice:
Moving swiftly on. The grips are like the David (as in the sculpture, not the local white van man) of the pistol grip world. Let's take a look shall we.
The front of the grips are finished nicely, very crisp engraving and the other texture work is near perfect. There's no dings or flaws anywhere, they feel nice and they're generally perfect. All the edges are very nicely rounded off with no chips. The wood is definitely of good quality.
Here's how the laser engraving looks close up:
As sharp as a drunken maths teachers tongue.
Upon turning the grips over, I found the following surprise:
Trademarks! Finius loves himself some trademarks! They're clean, well engraved and again, show some pride in the work that's been undertaken.
I neglected to photograph the rear mounting holes on the grips, but mine were nice and loose, with the screw-holes spot on in the middle, this means that the grips should fit literally ANY 1911 mountings, no matter how big or small, as the grips are adjusted into position by the screw itself, not the mounting holes. The only thing I did note was that to get a nice fit for the screws I had to dremel out .5mm round the edges of each hole, the screws would have gone through I think, but I was just paranoid about splitting the grips before I'd completed the review.
And finally, here's two pictures of them mounted to my pistol:
Real colouration may vary from what you see unless your monitor has been specifically set-up for print/photo editing purposes.
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(I'm paying for them this time, just incase anyone is worried that I'm being "bribed" to endorse his stuff, I'm not, Finius pays his way!)
