Finding Custom Ivory Grips

[FalconLair]

Its illegal all over the country now, you cant transfer it if you owned it prior, I think it went into effect around July 2016. California you cant even possess ivory I believe

i gotta hide my piano?

i know, i don't even live in CA but i couldn't resist

[Quiet]

i gotta hide my piano?

Only if it was made after 1975. [FGC 2022(c)(3)]

Fish and Game Code 2022
(c) The prohibitions set forth in subdivision (b) do not apply to any of the following:
(3) Ivory or rhinoceros horn that is part of a musical instrument, including, but not limited to, a string or wind instrument or piano, and that is less than 20 percent by volume of the instrument, if the owner or seller provides historical documentation demonstrating provenance and showing the item was manufactured no later than 1975.

[kozumasbullitt]

AFAIK...
They changed it to include mastodon ivory. [FGC 2022(a)(2)]
Change went into affect 01-01-2017.


Fish and Game Code 2022
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(2) a tooth or tusk from a species of elephant, hippopotamus, mammoth, mastodon, walrus, warthog, whale, or narwhal

We need to be sure to protect the mammoth and mastodon from extinction.

[jazman]

Find someone who can make you some custom grips in American Holly wood. Beautiful, looks just like ivory, and even ages like ivory.

[DArBad]

OP, why not just get " faux ivory " like those sold by Bar S Grips?

[tanks]

Its illegal all over the country now, you cant transfer it if you owned it prior, I think it went into effect around July 2016. California you cant even possess ivory I believe

Not true if you get your own, the law prohibits possession FOR SALE.

[200Apples]

Stag antler is the way to go on a 1911... and due to the latest ivory restrictions, faux ivory/bonded ivory is a good substitute for single-action pistols, as is faux pearl.

[BigPimping]

Importation of Ivory has been banned for a long time. Why anyone would want those given their source is a mystery to me.

[dummykid]

Instead of Ivory, which is illegal in the U.S, why don't you use abalone shell? one of my friends made CZ grips from it, and it looks nice.

[-hanko]

AFAIK...
They changed it to include mastodon ivory. [FGC 2022(a)(2)]
Change went into affect 01-01-2017.

Quiet, thanks for the update.

[deckhandmike]

Instead of Ivory, which is illegal in the U.S, why don't you use abalone shell? one of my friends made CZ grips from it, and it looks nice.

Careful working with abalone. The dust from grinding is hazardous to your lungs.

[keith1911]

I wanted the ivory like look on one of my Les Baers and went with the VZ ivory G10 ones: https://vzgrips.com/pistol-grips/191...mond-ivory-g10

[BlK Lantern]

Very interesting respones. I was not aware that Ivory (including Mammoth) was restricted in California. I may look into Stag.

Thank you,

[edgerly779]

I have a lot of ivory netsukes also large imperial junk weighs 8 lbs some of my netsukes are 200 years old

[AFTII]

AFAIK...
They changed it to include mastodon ivory. [FGC 2022(a)(2)]
Change went into affect 01-01-2017.


Fish and Game Code 2022
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(2) “Ivory” means a tooth or tusk from a species of elephant, hippopotamus, mammoth, mastodon, walrus, warthog, whale, or narwhal, or a piece thereof, whether raw ivory or worked ivory, and includes a product containing, or advertised as containing, ivory.
(3) “Rhinoceros horn” means the horn, or a piece thereof, or a derivative such as powder, of a species of rhinoceros, and includes a product containing, or advertised as containing, a rhinoceros horn.

Makes perfect sense to me. We MUST protect mastodons from extinction. This law does not go far enough. We should protect trilobites too.