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Old 11-12-24, 00:34
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As for the leather handgrips, I contacted Dave today and asked him again if those leather handgrips were on his carrier when his dad got it from surplus and he confirmed they were on the carrier.
I had a closer look at them today and noticed one of them had a blue felt liner in between the inner roll of leather and the outer leather handgrip.
The second one had a horsehair liner in between the inner roll of leather and the outer leather handgrip.
I’m now wondering if they were a base workshop repair/replacement handgrip that was made to replace broken/ missing rubber handgrips?
Thank you for finding that thread on the question Michael R. had on the leather handgrip he had. You can see in the pictures of mine that they are shorter than the rubber one. Michael R.’s picture shows a metal retaining ring on the bottom of his and the stitching on his is different than the ones I have.
With all the differences in construction makes me think they were made as needed and not something factory made.
Curious if anybody else have some examples of leather handgrips they can post?
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