Scrimshaw Pistol Grips

There's nothing like a custom pistol grip and scrimshaw can really spice them up! Scrimshaw can be done in one color or multiple colors, depending on one's taste.

Scrimshaw work is especially attractive on ivory, ivory look-alike and pearl and pearl look-alike grips.

Each sample of scrimshaw work on this page has under it the price that you would pay for one grip panel with the number of colors shown.

This design on one panel of the set of 1860 Army grips cost $70.	This ceremonial bison skull on real pearl cost $60
These grip panels went to a man whose SASS alias is Irish Jack. This job with three colors on the shamrocks, plus the name is $90 per panel.
This bugling elk on a Ruger Blackhawk grip cost $50 per panel.	This is the first real ivory grip I carved. With the main image and border, this job is $70.
The single-color eagle on one panel of these K-frame Smith & Wesson Grips cost $50. The three-color Texas map on the other was $70.
These full-color roses on Pearlite grips for a lovely SASS shooter whose alias is Tumbleweed Rose would cost $110 per panel.	This scrimshawed grizzly bear on a Cimarron Schofield grip with a bear track in the medallion position and cross-hatch border cost $75 per panel.
Initials scrimshawed on handgun grips run only $30 per panel.
This package of landing eagles on 1911 grip panels with a border cost $60 per panel.	I put this scrimshawed eagle on the poly-ivory grips on a pair of consecutively numbered Colt SAAs. This design costs $50 per grip panel.
This was a unique request from a gentleman in Virginia. The nude cowgirl cost $50 and the initials on the other panel cost $30.
This coiled rattler was on one panel of a set of Ruger Vaquero grips I scrimshawed for a SASS member whose alias is Big Rattler. Each panel was $60.	This coiled rattler was on one panel of a set of Ruger Vaquero grips I scrimshawed for a SASS member whose alias is Big Rattler.
This scrimshaw of John Wayne as he appeared in Rio Bravo was on a slab of Micarta. In 5 by 7 size it would cost $200.
This ceremonial bison skull on imitation ivory with red accents would cost $70 per panel.
This majestic bugling elk is perfect on the imitation ivory grips of a Ruger Super Blackhawk.
This customer first sent me his Ruger Vaquero grips to scrimshaw the Masonic logo on both. Then he sent them back for the secondary insignias in the medallion positions.
I scrimshawed this face of a wolf on a cross-section of pre-ban walrus ivory for a friend whose son had a domesticated wolf.	This wolf track on a cross-section of pre-ban walrus ivory is opposite an image of a wolf’s face on the opposite side.
I did these grips for a Virginia doctor on ivory Smith & Wesson J-frame grips to honor his two German Shepherds.
A customer who wanted me to make these Model 686 grips match a pair that an artisan who since died had created for his Model 66 Smith..