News
July 2026 Hamre Forge Update
|Ryan Hamre
It’s time to share an update on the state of things. It’s been a very busy year, full of ups and downs, but we hope this finds everyone doing well and gives you plenty to look forward to. The New Shop. We built the new shop from a completely blank slate; no walls, minimal power, nothing. We poured significant time and money into creating a space purpose-built for Powder Bed Fusion / Selective Laser Sintering. Once it was ready, we moved in our trusted two-year-old machine and a used machine... Read more...
Spring Has Sprung
|Ryan Hamre
It has been a while since we have posted anything to the blog, but now seems like a good time for an update. Spring is right around the corner, and with the summer shooting season approaching, we really want to provide more grips to those who have been asking. When we got the call for the opportunity to work with Lipsey’s and provide a grip for the Lipsey’s Exclusive Ultimate Carry J-Frame, we were shocked and humbled. Our first large deal, and it is on something called the “Ultimate Carry.”... Read more...
As of 12/26/2025, California customers, we’re sorry.
|Ryan Hamre
Effective immediately (as of December 26, 2025), due to California’s Assembly Bill 1263 (AB-1263), we will no longer accept orders for revolver grips or other handgun grip products that require shipment to California shipping addresses. This new law classifies certain firearm accessories—including pistol grips and related handgun components—as regulated items. It imposes requirements on sellers to perform age and identity verification, provide specific warnings, and follow strict delivery protocols. To ensure full compliance and avoid potential liability, we have decided to suspend all orders and shipments of these products to... Read more...
Thanksgiving Day Hamre Forge Update
|Ryan Hamre
Happy Thanksgiving! As I reflect on the things I’m thankful for, I thought I’d write a blog post to express my gratitude, share some insights into what we’re planning for the near future, and provide a few updates. First, what have we been up to? As many of you have likely seen, we’ve released some medium- and large-frame Smith & Wesson grips. We’ve also launched the Spegel Round Butt N-frame boot grips and the Spegel Round Butt K-frame extended boot grips. Both have been very well received, and very long... Read more...
The Hamre Forge AFR UnderCover Conundrum
|Ryan Hamre
The AFR UnderCover grip has been a hit in the revolver community, and we’re thrilled with the enthusiasm and demand. However, our current inventory is far below what’s needed to meet this interest. I planned to ramp up production after freeing machine capacity from OEM orders, but a critical machine component failed two weeks ago. The part, only made overseas with a 30-45 day lead time, delayed us until a friend supplied a spare, costing us two weeks. To balance demand with production, we’re limiting AFR UnderCover stock to match... Read more...
Kimbers - Coming Back!
|Ryan Hamre
Sometime in December, we stopped shipping Kimber stocks. We paused for a few reasons, but the primary one was the feel around the horns transitioning to the backstrap. The Kimber grip frame is a complex shape. It has multiple planes, significant shape variation, and some unusual features around the horns. Our first-generation grips were solid, but they suffered from a high recoil impulse. Another reason for the redesign was that the distance from the rear of the cylinder to the back of our speed reload cut wasn’t long enough to smoothly... Read more...
What's the material? When is X gonna be in stock?
|Ryan Hamre
It seems time for an update. Time to answer some questions, provide business and product updates, and the like. What's the material? Do you make rubber grips? A lot of people ask what our grips are made of, how hard or soft they are, and how they're made. At this time, all our grips are made from nylon—polyamide-12, specifically. The nylon starts life as a powder, and we use a combination of heat and lasers to turn the individual powder particles into a solid object, like a grip. The result... Read more...
The News Is Out! And it couldn't have come on a better day
|Ryan Hamre
We couldn't be more excited here at Hamre Forge. It's Lee Day. It's Trump's inauguration day. And today is also the day of the announcement of our first OEM grip deal. As many people may have seen already, a newly announced Lipsey's Exclusive "Ultimate Carry" j-frame revolver will be released featuring our Hamre Forge American Fighting Revolver UC grips. There's a video here- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8U6i7dCMk4 Many of our products are currently marked "Out Of Stock", and in our last blog post we alluded to the fact that we would do this... Read more...
Business updates and A Happy New Year!
|Ryan Hamre
2024 was WILD here at the forge. We shipped more orders in December than we did in our entire first year of business in 2023. Simply amazing, and it wouldn't have been possible without the support of our enthusiastic customers. It doesn't look like it's slowing down anytime soon. We're on track to ship more grips in January and February than we did in all of 2024, which makes me nervous about what Q4 of 2025 might bring. All this has been amazing for us, a crazy journey, and I... Read more...
White Grips and Supply Chains
|Ryan Hamre
On December 8th, I posted a picture on social media showing an LCR and a J-Frame fitted with Hamre Forge produced stocks, which were white. This post sparked many questions such as: Are you offering colors now? Can we buy them in white/grey? I thought you weren't using white materials until mid-2025? Why are you messing around with white material when we ordered black grips? These are all valid questions, and I haven't fully addressed them until now. There was significant anticipation leading up to Black Friday on November 29th,... Read more...
Black Friday Post - Updates and Future Projects
|Ryan Hamre
Black Friday through Cyber Monday Starting now we've added a discount coupon code for 10% off. We RARELY do discount codes, so if you've been on the fence about grabbing something, now really is the time. LU1121WASM - 10% off Today, we added our Holiday Hamre Hook Hoodie to the website. Tomorrow, Saturday the 30, we will be releasing the first of our Classics Line for the J- Frame Sunday, December 1, we will be releasing 1911 grips. Cyber Monday, December 2, we will be releasing a very special and... Read more...
Material Change, we're dropping the Carbon Fiber
|Ryan Hamre
Material Change, we're dropping the Carbon Fiber As a company, we have always strived to keep our customers aware of what we're doing as a company. Also, through these blog posts, we hope to help and encourage people who might not even be customers of ours with additive manufacturing through the sharing of this information. From the time we started Hamre Forge, up until very recently, we thought the future of this company was in Carbon Fiber infused nylons, specifically Carbon Fiber infused powder in commercial Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)... Read more...
Hamre Forge Second Generation LCR Grip
|Ryan Hamre
We're extremely excited to show our completed second generation of the Hamre Forge LCR Boot Grip. For a long time we've had our three piece grips, and while they worked, they had some issues. They were difficult to make. They had a high manufacturing failure rate. They took a lot of time to clean and prep for sending. They had some tolerance issues and gaps that were very difficult to nail down. The design of the hook made it very tough to make a left handed hook. It should be... Read more...
State Of The Hamre Forge Union Update
|Ryan Hamre
LCR At the time of writing this, we have about 20 orders outstanding, and they're all for the LCR. The LCR is the final set of stocks that we are manufacturing on our FDM printers, and not sintering on our industrial SLS machine. The time and labor it takes for every LCR is extensive, which is why we've been wanting to produce a 1 piece LCR grip on the SLS. We're wrapping up the 1 piece LCR project right now. We've been working on the design, test shooting it, and... Read more...
By Jove! I think we've got it!
|Ryan Hamre
What a long time coming. Starting tomorrow we're shipping backlogged orders. I'll start with the problems that started all this off. Parts were failing internal strength tests prior to shipment Parts were being produced with excess surface porosity that was aesthetically garbage, and could lead to mechanical failure. Given these two issues, we were seeing very high failure rates. To make matters worse, as we chased the strength issue, we saw increased porosity. The further we dove into the porosity problem we discovered more strength problems. It got to the... Read more...
Discoveries have been made
|Ryan Hamre
First off, I'd like to thank everyone for their patience and support through all this. It's been difficult not having the machine up and running. Instead of using powder to close out orders, we've been forced to use powder to configure the machine and troubleshoot, which has really been tough. Second, many individuals read our previous post and let us know they wanted more. Many people wanted me to go more nerdy, deeper, and more in depth into this process, what we've been going through, how the technology works, and... Read more...
"Where's my order?!"
|Ryan Hamre
"Where's my order?!" That's what a lot of people are probably wondering. I want to reiterate that we're doing everything we can to fill orders. We're staying up late, and waking up early. We have not forgotten any orders, and as soon as your order ships, you will receive a tracking number and notification that your order has been completed. But, at this time, I'm betting your order is somewhere in this pile of unshippable product- No good pile. Straight to the garbage. That's about $5,000 in product, that we... Read more...
Finally coming up for air
|Ryan Hamre
The last 25 days have been wild. We released the HF Spegels on June 30th, and got absolutely pummeled with orders. To make matters worse, running our new machine in a production capacity exposed some flaws in our configuration which required us to go back to doing some machine tuning. That wiped out about 2 weeks. Since the week of July 8th, we were able to resolve our issues and have been producing and sending grips straight out. As of today, for the first time in 25 days, we'll be... Read more...
Update after Hamre Forge Kimber and HF Spegel releases
|Ryan Hamre
A few things forced our hand and obligated us to release the HF Spegel stocks very shortly after the Kimber K6s and K6xs stocks. Normally I would prefer a little more of a build up to let everyone know instead of springing it so close together. But, we were actually expecting to release the Kimber stocks back in February of this year, and issues with production threw quite a monkey wrench into those plans. At this time the orders are absolutely flowing in, which is a huge blessing, and we... Read more...
NAA Release - Issues Abound
|Ryan Hamre
We were very excited to launch our NAA grips. We'd been testing both our grips and our new manufacturing method with success. And leave it to our first full production run of NAA grips for us to experience our first catastrophic failure. What should have been over 30 pairs of grips was this- Now, thankfully, I caught wind of this 2 days ago when these were being created, so I had things queued up with the manufacturer to be able to troubleshoot this, rectify it, and send repair parts ASAP.... Read more...