PIETTA 1851 NAVY CAP & BALL BLACKPOWDER MAGNA-TUSK™ GRIPS ~ 2P WHITE SCROLL

Arizona Custom Grips

PIETTA

1851 Navy

Cap & Ball (Black Powder Percussion)
Revolvers

~ Exclusive ~

  MAGNA-TUSK™ 

WHITE IVORY

SCROLL ENGRAVED GRIPS

Milled out of a solid block of Magna-Tusk, denser and
heavier than regular Ivory or Stag.  See
below for details.

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two-PIECE
(with SCREWHOLE) STYLE

THIS AUCTION IS FOR OUR
TWO-PIECE (SCREWHOLE) STYLE GRIPS.  SEE BELOW.

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ONE-PIECE VS. TWO-PIECE STYLE GRIPS:

A Choice for Every
User! Two-Piece style grips incorporate a visible screw and screwhole, allowing
easy and quick removal for cleaning or maintenance of your revolver.  One-piece style grips do not use a screw but
instead use an internal spacer.  Both
styles are traditional and historical designs and both were originally used on
early Colts, so it is a matter of personal preference.  Both styles of our grips will interchange
and work on either style of grip frame. 
See below.

One-Piece style grips (i.e., grips
which do not have a visible screwhole in the grips) incorporate a user
installed spacer (included with the grips) between the grip panels, as seen on
many of the early Colts.  The spacer is
sent unmounted to ensure optimum fit with your revolver, with simple, quick
installation which takes about one minute or so per grip.  Fully illustrated instructions are
included.  This results in a rock-tight
fit, without the need of a screw.  Preferred
by many collectors for their clean lines and traditional look. One-Piece style
grips are removed by removing the three backstrap screws, and pulling the grip
and backstrap backwards.  Reinstallation
is in reverse order. 

Alternatively, our Two-Piece style
grips (i.e., grips with a visible screw and screwhole) offer the superior
convenience of quick grip removal.  They
include a free Conversion kit, allowing
their use on revolvers that are currently using one-piece style grips that do
not have a grip pin.  The conversion kit replaces
the need for a grip pin and is actually a stronger design, and allows the grips
to lock up tight on the frame, allowing no movement.  This
requires no modification to your revolver and gives you the advantage of the
ease of maintenance of Two-Piece grips, while preserving the integrity of your
revolver in original factory condition. Two-Piece style grips were
also used on many of the early Colts, and are a traditional and iconic
historical design, offering a distinctive look and convenience preferred by
many collectors.

Fully illustrated, detailed instructions
are included with each set of grips.  01042300

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The legendary Colt 1851 Navy, a 36 Caliber Cap & Ball revolver
designed by Sam Colt, was manufactured in Hartford, CT starting in the 1850’s
and continued on into the 1870’s.  In
1873, it was superceded by the Colt 1873 Single Action Army, which fired
metallic cartridges and became a legend in its own right. 

To many, the handling qualities and the size and shape of
the Navy grip frame was and is unsurpassed, even by today’s standards.  It was the grip frame that the later Colt
1873 Single Action Army was based on.  As
such, both the ’51 Navy and the 1873 SAA are deemed by many to be two of the
most naturally pointing revolvers ever designed.  With an elegant and svelte profile, the ’51
Navy grip frame facilitates ultra-fast handling, and rapid, instinctive aiming.  It was the preferred sidearm by many seasoned
gunfighters of the Old West.  Bringing the
Navy revolver into quick action by experienced gunmen was more of an exercise
in instinctual tactile feel rather than ponderous, time-consuming deliberation. 

The Navy revolvers can be easily distinguished from the
later Colt 1873 Single Action Army because they do not have a top strap (the
section of steel located over the top of the cylinder, where the rear sight
trough is located on the 1873). 

WHAT THESE WILL FIT

These grips WILL FIT
the PIETTA 1851 Navy Cap & Ball (Black Powder Percussion) revolvers
ONLY. 

This includes not only
the standard Pietta 1851 Navys, but also “special edition” ’51 Navys, such as
the: “1851 Navy Sheriff,” “1851 Captain
Shaeffer,” “1851 Navy Reb Brass,”  “1851
Navy Buntline,” “1851 Navy Griswold & Gunnison,” “1851 Navy Dlx,” “1851 Navy
London,” “1851 Navy Old Silver,” “1851 Navy Pepperbox,” “1851 Navy US Marshal,”
“1851 Confederate Navy,” “1851 Navy Yank,” 
and all other 1851 Navy style revolvers with the standard plowhandle
style grip made by Pietta.

IMPORTANT!! (Please read the following in its
entirety):

Please note that over
the years, Pietta has used several different grip frame variations on their revolvers.  To ensure that we send the correct grips, when
ordering please attach a message to your order stating the two-digit code found
in the small rectangular box on your revolver (as shown in the 2^nd
picture in the listing).  If you have a
newer revolver and cannot find the code, please send the first three digits of
your serial number so we can identify your particular revolver.  If we do not hear back from you, we will ship
the most common version of grips to ensure we get these out on time.

Also, please note that
these will NOT fit
the Uberti, Colt, Armi San Marco, or any other make of 1851 Navy revolver.  Please
see our other auctions for these, or send us an email and we will help you
locate what you need. 

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A note on the
Italian-produced Revolvers:

The Italian firms,
located in Northern Italy, have been making SAA style revolvers now for well
over a half century, and have made a huge number of makes and models and grip
frame profiles with varying configurations over the years.  We have an
in-depth knowledge of the differing grip configurations, have a large library
of gripframe variations from the various makers both old and new, and have vast
experience making grips for Uberti, Pietta, Armi San Marco, and the other
Italian gunmaking firms.   Our experienced makers go to great lengths
to ensure an exacting fit, including utilizing modern precision CNC production
techniques, as well as incorporating old-time hand tuning and hand checking the
fit of every grip on our reference frames prior to leaving our factory. 
We have a long list of many satisfied customers in the shooting industry who
have purchased grips to use in a wide variety of applications, and we can
safely and confidently guarantee proper fit and finish to your complete
satisfaction.

For an additional
charge, custom fitting is an option.  Please contact us for further
details if you are interested in custom fitting.

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Arizona Custom Grips

About our exclusive Magna-Tusk™ “Hi-Grade”
Ivory Grips:

 Our Ivory grips, an exclusive of Arizona Custom Grips,
are made out of a premium high-grade, ultra-high density ivory material (Magna-Tusk™), designed from the ground
up as a premium grip material to greatly improve on the inherent fragility and
weakness of the cheaper Bonded Ivory used on just about all factory and regular
aftermarket ivory grips today.  Standard
Bonded Ivory is brittle, and tends to weaken and develop stress fractures over
time with repeated use, firing, and handling. 
Magna-Tusk™ is capable of withstanding the heaviest recoil and impact,
and is the toughest alternative Ivory grip material available today, while
still retaining the pristine look of real ivory.  These grips are not
cast or made out of an inferior, lightweight material, but are heavy and dense,
carefully milled out of a solid block, one at a time.  Magna-Tusk is completely rock-solid, stable,
and water, chemical, and oil resistant.  It is flame and heat resistant,
will not melt like Urethane or plastic, and is entirely void-free, with over
10x the strength, durability, and impact resistance of alternative
materials.  Unlike with real ivory, there is no routine care and
maintenance involved, with no danger of it drying out and cracking if not
maintained properly or if left in the heat.  It is produced with outstanding
aesthetic properties and mechanical performance.  When aged with our
exclusive aging process, it takes on the equivalent of a 100-year-old patina,
with subtle grain details which most experts cannot tell apart from the real
thing.  In addition, the material has a fine grain structure, which
holds intricate detail for carvings, artistic relief work, etc., found on many
historic grips. 

Please note that the photo used is a stock photo (a
sample pair).  Yours will appear similar to these. 

Customer
satisfaction is important to us – we guarantee your complete satisfaction with
every purchase!!