one piece grip question

[benjaminw7528]

 cold you explain in detail how to install a one piece grip on a single action

[benjaminw7528]

 sorry about the spelling

[Glanceblamm]

What kind of a grip?
A Hogue will have a hanger that is installed on the bottom of the grip frame and has a female fitting on the opposite end. There is a channel in the inner grip that this hanger fits into and it follows the curvature sliding all the way to the bottom of course and an external screw then goes into a hole at the bottom of the grip and into that female fitting.

Most of these grips (Hogue to Packmyer) will come with instructions. They are ugly on a S/A but yet provide a good platform for balance & pointability as well as soaking up a bunch of recoil. I have done this with one of my S/A's but it also wears a scope.

[Rangr44]

What kind of single action revolver is more to the point.

Generally, a two-piece gripframe is required for wooden one-piece grips, so the wooden block can be inletted for the mainspring and the front & rear grip straps - with a solid. integral wood connection from side panel to side panel.
The block's exterior is then shaped to the gripmakers taste/style.

Most modern SA revolvers have one-piece gripframes, which is generally a deal breaker - but original and repro blackpowder Colt-clone revolvers generally have two-piece gripframes.

Blackpowder style gripframes can also be installed on some modern SA revolvers, as custom work.

IIRC, alternately, some folks have cemented (epoxy) a right & left grip panel to a central filler block, making (in effect) a one-piece grip for modern, one-piece gripframe SA revolvers - which would have to be destroyed for any mainspring disassembly/repairs.

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