Hope for TOZ-35 Factory Grips
Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:47 pm
My Toz 35 came with grips that bore a heavy brown stain and caused excruciating pain if I tried to insert my hand into them. Indeed, I could not even get my hand into the grips. To shoot the gun, I needed to remove the palm rest, and even then, the grips were terribly painful.
After much sanding and relieving of confining spaces, the grips are now quite pleasant to use. The palm rest needed to be set further from the grip so it could accommodate my hand. I found a piece of scrap hardwood and made a spacer for the palm rest. Note: do not use whatever spacer wood I found, as it has the atomic density of tungsten. It's a reddish hardwood and should only be used to stop artillery.
A tip: wherever your hand is experiencing uncomfortable contact with the grip, dot that area of your hand with black shoe polish, and insert your hand into the grip. The polish will transfer to the encroaching spot, and you can relieve this offending area.
I sanded the grips with a progression of 150, 300, 400 and 600 grit sandpaper, and the surface was quite smooth when I applied the tru-oil finish.
While I'd like to have some fancier grips, these are very comfortable and quite attractive. The wood also possibly has seen some history. If my gun was built in the 50's, and if the Russian trees were 100 years old when cut, these trees were growing during Russian serfdom.
After much sanding and relieving of confining spaces, the grips are now quite pleasant to use. The palm rest needed to be set further from the grip so it could accommodate my hand. I found a piece of scrap hardwood and made a spacer for the palm rest. Note: do not use whatever spacer wood I found, as it has the atomic density of tungsten. It's a reddish hardwood and should only be used to stop artillery.
A tip: wherever your hand is experiencing uncomfortable contact with the grip, dot that area of your hand with black shoe polish, and insert your hand into the grip. The polish will transfer to the encroaching spot, and you can relieve this offending area.
I sanded the grips with a progression of 150, 300, 400 and 600 grit sandpaper, and the surface was quite smooth when I applied the tru-oil finish.
While I'd like to have some fancier grips, these are very comfortable and quite attractive. The wood also possibly has seen some history. If my gun was built in the 50's, and if the Russian trees were 100 years old when cut, these trees were growing during Russian serfdom.