I've made several grips with Hickory. Like other woods it can be really plain or sometimes look pretty cool. First set was for a fella down in Texas, groping for his name but memory is failing. He said he'd send me the wood.
I got a box about 16'' x 16'' square. He'd took a full round off his wood pile and sent the whole thing. At first I didn't have any idea how to work that. Wife was working for a trucking/mill company and they had one of them big band saws that cut whole logs. They sliced it into 1/2'' slabs. I still have a little bit of it around, not sure where it all went. As I recall I put a Marine Corp emblem in that set. Probably pictures around here someplace.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."
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