Mountain Ivory Scrimshaw

12/05/2025

Now AVAILABLE over at Hawks Custom Grips. Hand Crafted, traditional scrimshaw on HQ S Grade faux ivory.

11/28/2025

Just adding a few more photos of past grips that were made.

06/10/2025

Been awhile since we posted in here, but Hawk took some time to make a few things for this page that will be available soon. Here we have some Handcrafted necklace Pendants/Medallions, crafted from Stabilized Mammoth Tusk and Traditionally Scrimshawed with a Dry Trout Fly and a Fouled Anchor with the Birth year of the United States Navy.

01/03/2025

Hawk did this a while back, Traditionally Scrimshawed, Rainbow Trout and stream scape, done on a 100,000 year old piece of Stabilized Mammoth Tusk..5" × 2" and mounted on a piece of West Virginia driftwood 😁🇺🇸 AVAILABLE.. MESSAGE BECKA OR MIKE HAWKINS FOR DETAILS

01/01/2025

04/19/2024

Just wanted to post a few of the grips from Hawk's CustomGrips.... Very proud of the work my husband does all by hand.

03/31/2024

On this day and each day after I pray that his story becomes part of yours. May the peace and comfort that He brings find you. He is my rescue story and if you allow him, he can be yours. Happy Easter

08/24/2023

Love seeing how pleased he was with his hand made grips from Hawks custom grips.

08/06/2023

By Mike Hawkins::: There's a story behind these grips, just finished, and shipping tomorrow..I'm only sharing this here because its gonna close the book on a very stressful few weeks..Tomorrows a new day..These are Handmade, literally, the Scrimshaw is done in a Traditional style with a heavy hand..
This project has over 75 hours in them, should have taken me a little less than half that, from a set of Mammoth blocks to the finished product...But these turned out to be a hellacious nightmare for me. The first set was in the last stages of completion, with one slabs artwork finished and half way through the second slab when I noticed a flaw under the polished surface of slab 2 when my tool didn't act right when I made my cut.
Never had this happen before, dont know what caused it but it seemed like a spot hadn't taken in the Stabilization process..Never.
I had 1 of 3 choices..1..take the bad grip down, hoping it wasnt deep 2..remake that side since I was going to have to do the Scrimshaw over again..Or 3..Remake the whole set, lose the hours I've put in, in order to make absolutely sure the Client gets my absolute best..
I had to go with regretfully had to go with 3. If I took one side down, it would make one side thicker than the other, not an option at all in my eyes..2 I thought was possible but do to the color being too off from the other I went ahead and made a full set..I did this because my idea of my best would not allow me to do something mediocre and let it leave my shop..Couldnt do it..But yet after sending pics and explaining this individual showed his true colors..he truly left a bad taste in my mouth by the things he said, the way he acted..I wanted to so badly return his deposit, give him a piece of my mind and eat all the time I wasted and move on..I completed them, knowing what kind of person he truly was..I had made grips for him before, same issues with rushing, hurrying and being nasty..Becka warned me not to take another order from him after the first one, then warned me again before I took the second one..I didn't listen, but am listening now..
Folks, I work for myself, no helpers, no CNC, no Computer or engraving equipment, this is all done BY HAND, I even make my own scribes for Scrimshawing..I do it the old way, because I'm a Traditionalist, and carry that value through to many aspects of my daily life..I love what I do, and take pride in it..and if it's not the best I can do, I feel that I'm cheating the person that is expecting my best. My best is what each and every one of those trusting me get and that's an absolute fact..I also attached pics of the set that was almost finished along with the blemish under the surface..could have covered it up, the only person that would have known would have been me, but that is the one person that I trust to do the right thing..I know this is long, but like I said, this is closing a weeks long chapter that I could have done without..😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

07/31/2023

Available :::: by Mike Hawkins:::almost forgot, thanks to my wife she jarred my memory..🤣😂 she's the one that keeps me straight..
These were made for a Custom order and were nearly finished with full coverage Scrimshaw, but during the Scrimshaw process I happened upon a flaw in the surface..SO, In order to make sure the colors of each grip matched, I had to take it completely down on both sides..doing this I had to take them down past the surface flaw in order to save them..So these are now Slims..I also inlaid them with Tarnished Liberty V Nickles with the dates of 1911..I'm very particular on my inlays, I make sure that they follow the contour of the grip so there's no flat spot..this is done by bending the inlay to the curve of the grip..Handmade and backed with G10..Full Size..THESE ARE AVAILABLE..😁🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

07/04/2023

Cross cut Mammoth Ivory set in pendants. Anchor is sold but we can get more, banjo and butterfly are available. Message me for more info.

06/29/2023

Just a few Mammoth Ivory pieces Mike did for Ms. Ashley G. Absolutely love how these turned out.