OK, now I know some of you eager beavers dived into this mail ready to scream "check the archive"!

I know that there is a grip comparison in there, but this is not what this post is technically about.

Actually, my aim is to get this also in the archive as a definative show and tell of the exact shape of the PR grips (I realise being custom they varied.

What I would like is any images anyone has of the ORIGINAL PR grips.

I am more than a little anal with the building of my PR... down to the millimetre (where possible) and I am not entirely happy with any grip that I have ever seen, and as far as I'm aware I have seen them all.

I knocked this up today, trying to get a more accurate shape (this was made using Willie Goldman's high res PR photos)



I will not post close ups of Willie's images without permission.

Longmountain's PR

a comparison of real PR grips:



I used a real wooden thompson grip and about 5 minutes with a convex surform to reshape the front and a triangular file to make the grooves:

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Jon

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