Wood grip TT-33

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Have a tt-33 with wood grips on hold at a local store. Its a 1945 model with original wood grips. The only problem i see with it is that the wood grips are riveted to the fram and im assuming over time the wood as probly dried out and shrunk because the grip as become prety slack. My question is anyone encounter this before and if u did how did u fix it.
 
they aren't riveted to the frame. The rivet holts a rotating metal tab that clips to the frame. You disassemble them from inside the magwell.

I'd not worry about it.
 
if it has wood grips it is most likely a vet bring back or Finnish capture, opposed to a recent import. as claven sad they can be tightened. lets see some pictures for a better
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Had a closer inspection of it last night ( will post pics once i have it brought home from the shop :cool:), It appears to have a serbian marking on its slide. Its a 1945 frame with the right slide grooves for that time periode and original wood grips. Its a very nice pistol over all in good shape i looked at the grips closer and they seem be easy fixs
 
Pics would be great, I'm contemplating one of these.
I have one with grips that look identical to the marstar pic...but on the inside you can see that they are some kind of compressed fiber material. Not really Bakelite but not wood either.
 
"The TT-30 was produced through 1936 with about 93,000 pistols being made. In 1933 two changes were made to the design which necessitated changing the name to TT-33. The changes were in the method the barrel locking lugs were machined and by simplifying frame design to reduce the number of parts needed. These changes did not get incorporated into the production line until 1936.

The TT-33 was produced through WWII and into the mid 1950’s. The design was unchanged except for some guns made during WWII that had wooden grips instead of the black bakelite grips with the CCCP Communist Star logo."

http://www.gundigest.com/gun-collecting-firearm-collecting/tokarev-tt-33-and-its-clones
 
FWIW, all wood-gripped guns that went through Soviet refurb had thsoe replaced with the standard bakelite grips, so the Ukrainian-imports are all bekelite, but non-soviet refurbs and original WW2 era pistols may retain wood grips which were used whenever bakelite was in short supply during the war.
 
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