Colt Grips Price Reduced To $23,000 - Page 4

SixBravo · August 25th, 2006, 04:16 PM

So.... if its covered in diamonds.... What happens to your hands during repeated firing? Considering diamonds will cut ANYTHING rather easily, I wonder what they might do to hands? I'm sure a gun like this isn't meant to be fired but geeeeeez

HotGuns · August 25th, 2006, 04:28 PM

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Maybe it's for a visual stun effect. You pull that baby out and they are so shocked at the sight of it you have extra time to take action?

Nah...you guys got it all wrong....its actually a new "weapon" in disquise...

Imagine the razzle dazzle you'd get if you simply shine your flashlight on it...
with all those diamonds it'd be quite a light display and extremely disorienting to anyone that looks at it...

Rock and Glock · August 25th, 2006, 06:23 PM

OK....I nibble....not that I even like 1911's or have more than two nickels to rub together..... I just gotta know: Do you know the provenance of those beasts? Please, pray tell!

JD · August 30th, 2006, 08:36 PM

And I thought Liberache would want those burried with him...

QKShooter · August 30th, 2006, 08:46 PM

I have a set with all emeralds rather than the rubies if anybody is interested. They look real nice with the greenish tinted parkerized finish.

JD · August 30th, 2006, 08:49 PM

Great, instead of BBQ guns we now have Christmas pageant guns...

retsupt99 · August 30th, 2006, 10:09 PM

a dollar over $20,000...not one dollar!

ret

Double Naught Spy · August 31st, 2006, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by QKShooter

The sharply faceted rubies & diamonds provide a very secure gripping surface.
Much, much better than Emeralds, Sapphires, or checkered wood grips.

That makes it Really Easy to maintain a very tight hold on the pistol when some thief is attempting to take your gun off you and murder you for your incredibly valuable pistol grips.

The Bad Guys will have an extremely tough time prying these out of those cold, dead fingers.

Sorry, but sapphires and rubies are both the same crystal, corrundum.

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Originally Posted by SixBravo

So.... if its covered in diamonds.... What happens to your hands during repeated firing? Considering diamonds will cut ANYTHING rather easily, I wonder what they might do to hands? I'm sure a gun like this isn't meant to be fired but geeeeeez

As for sharp edges and cutting things, the mounted stones are round cuts and the exposed section of each stone is the crown (from the girdle up to the table). There are no sharp edges because the facet angles are not acute, thus no cutting edges per se.

On top of all that, the stones are pave set. That means they are low set into the gold, much like a pebble pavement. As such, you get a pebbly grip, that combined with the other information, means that your hands won't get cut up from the stones, but not doubt you run the risk of blisters from the pebbly surface as you would if the surface was the same structure, but made of some other hard material.

dimmak · August 31st, 2006, 08:54 AM

Werent those used as props in "Dumb and Dumber"?

QKShooter · August 31st, 2006, 09:29 AM

Sorry, but sapphires and rubies are both the same crystal, corrundum.

Oh That's right....100% correct. Different colors of the eaxt same stone.

Good Catch! There is a man who knows his colored stones!

August 25th, 2006, 06:23 PM	#33
Rock and Glock VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado at 9,500' Posts: 3,907	OK....I nibble....not that I even like 1911's or have more than two nickels to rub together..... I just gotta know: Do you know the provenance of those beasts? Please, pray tell! __________________ Richard NRA Life Member "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." Michelangelo Buonarroti

August 30th, 2006, 08:36 PM	#34
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August 30th, 2006, 08:49 PM	#36
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August 30th, 2006, 10:09 PM	#37
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August 31st, 2006, 08:54 AM	#39
dimmak Distinguished Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: TN Posts: 1,755	Werent those used as props in "Dumb and Dumber"? __________________ "Ray Nagin is a colossal disappointment" - NRA/ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox. "...be water, my friend."

August 30th, 2006, 08:46 PM	#35
QKShooter Assistant Administrator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Off Of The X Posts: 20,480	I have a set with all emeralds rather than the rubies if anybody is interested. They look real nice with the greenish tinted parkerized finish.

August 31st, 2006, 09:29 AM	#40
QKShooter Assistant Administrator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Off Of The X Posts: 20,480	Sorry, but sapphires and rubies are both the same crystal, corrundum. Oh That's right....100% correct. Different colors of the eaxt same stone. Good Catch! There is a man who knows his colored stones!

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