I just bought a huge box of wood grip panels off eBay.
The seller thought they were for Excam TA-90s.
Seems a gunsmith passed away and these were unfinished grips in his shop.
I had hopes that they would work on my EAA Witness 10mm since nobody on the planet sells good wood grips for large frame Witnesses.
They arrived today and I discovered they don't match either my Witnesses or my CZ's. The grip angle is a little different and the mag release is 1/2" lower.
I can kind of fit it to a CZ-75, but it doesn't fit perfectly although the grip screw hole does line up perfectly.
I would like to find somebody who has a TA-90 who I can send a set to to see if these do fit.
These grip panels are unshaped so they are just flat panels rough contoured, but with the tricky bit done already that matches to the frame.
If these do fit a TA-90 I'll just throw them up on eBay in matched pairs for cheap.
If somebody is willing to try these they can keep the set I send for free.
There is a variety of wood choices. Kingwood, walnut, rosewood, either striped ebony or wenge not sure which, maybe some bocote and a bunch of ivory micarta sets.
Here is the link to the eBay auction. the pictures will stay on eBay for a while.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/100X-Lot-Jean-St-Henri-EAA-Excam-Tanfoglio-Witness-Unfinished-Wood-Grips-/312855653186These might also fit older CZ'z or clones.
Looking at these did show me how to do custom witness grips.
The trickiest bit on CZ grips is the reverse bevel that grabs the frame along the front edge of the magwell cutout.
The solution this guy came up with was kind of brilliant. He cut panels out of thin micarta that have that reverse bevel.
Then he cuts a much simpler wood panel and epoxies the micarta to the inside surface.
It's a slick trick and one I will likely duplicate. I have an obsession with getting cocobolo grips on all my CZ'z and clones.
This gets me one step closer.
