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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...