Addressing note: – This is happening more often,so I’ll put it at the top:
If you live in an apartment or other multi-unit building or complex, please be sure your apartment/unit number is included in your shipping address. Otherwise the box will be returned, I’ll pick it up eventually from the Post Office and refund the price of the adapter(s) but NOT the shipping, and you’ll have to reorder with a more complete address if you still want things.
Temporarily Out Of Stock . . .
. . . will probably be a fact of life for BK Grips, at least for a while. Demand has been such that I simply cannot make new adapters fast enough to keep the inventory bins full at all times. Since the web site only shows items that are in stock (insuring that I NEVER end up swamped with unfilled back orders) this means that customers will frequently not see what they’re looking for.
I can only make 6 at a time, and a batch of 6 takes 3.5 hours from start (mold prep and copper clip work) to finished product in a For Sale bin and web site inventory updated. An hour of that process is Xacto knife work under a magnifier trimming flash off the 6 adapters I just took out of molds, before the resin gets too hard to cut with a knife. I also have other demands on my time besides making grip adapters
I have looked for but not found an industrial-level process to make these things in (relatively) vast quantities. So it remains hand work on individual products, and one of the limits on THAT process is how many I can carve in a day. Arthritic hands limit that number, and if I push it one day to get more done I frequently can’t do any the next day due to hand cramps.
Black adapters sell MUCH faster than ivories – 6 black adapters can disappear in hours after going into inventory, whereas the last of a batch of 6 ivories usually sits for at least a week and sometimes much longer. So don’t expect to see ivory adapters back in stock in the foreseeable future.
Grip adapters are made for Colt D/E/I frames, S&W K/L/N frames, and S&W J frames. (Some, coincidentally, fit other brands – check the Fitting Pix tab to see pictures of the ones customers have had success with.) If you want an adapter and don’t see it on the Order page, it means that particular item is currently out of stock. I will make more, and will update the web site as soon as something becomes available, but it sometimes takes a day or more to get caught up. So In the meantime, please just check back later, and thanks in advance for your patience. Please do not email asking if the business is closed or when things will be available – just be aware that I’m working on it.
And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
ORDERING NOTE: You should get a confirmation email shortly after you finish placing an order. I get a copy of the confirmation, along with another email advising me of the order itself, and a third advising of payment. I use these emails to fill the orders.
SO IF YOU DON’T get that confirmation within 24 hours, please send an email directly to kip@bkgrips.com, advising that you haven’t received the confirmation. I have other information sources I can then use to fill an order, but don’t normally look at them unless I know there’s an order out there for which I haven’t got the information in the usual form. (This has only happened once in the 6+ years since this business opened, but the customer’s order was delayed for quite a while because I didn’t know it was out there.)
PAYMENTS ARE BY CREDIT CARD ONLY. Payments by mailed in checkor money order were discontinued in May of 2021. Payments are processed to me by PayPal, but you can use other credit cards if you don’t have, or don’t want to use, a PayPal account.
SHIPPING IS BY PRIORITY MAIL. Postage is in addition to the cost of the adapter(s). It’s whatever the current rate is for a Small Flat Rate Box, which goes up every year in January, and USPS has been adding a “christmas season” surcharge beginning around October for the past few years. The rate is for as many adapters as will fit in a single box (which is at least 10 but may be as many as 12).
PLEASE NOTE THAT SALES ARE LIMITED TO USA ADDRESSES ONLY. I’m afraid it’s not worth the hassle of dealing with the PayPal/USPS/Customs Forms interaction for the one or two orders a year that would come from outside the US.