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I hope this site will be of help to you, either as resource for information you might find helpful in designing and building your own spadegrips, or in helping you decide if it's just more work than you care to get into. Not everyone's skills are in metalworking, and not everyone, even with the skills, has the time. If you decide to buy instead of build, at least you will know why the better spades available on the market are so expensive. Spadegip vendors can be found on the Links page. The first thing I did was to try to find an authentic example of a Browning .30 caliber machine guns with factory spadegrips. I found a photo of the experimental T-152 in the 1969 printing of Small Arms of the World by W.H.B. Smith. The T-152 led to the development of the M-37. I did my initial design from that photo. Since then I have found, or been given, several photos of the ANM2 .30 cal. aircraft machine gun. The images below can be enlarged by clicking on them, as can most of the images on this site. |
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Another color photo of an ANM2 showing the early banded wood handles. |
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The photo at left came from Biggerhammer.net in the ANM2/MG 40 section. There is a lot of information, including an operator's manual. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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