I'm looking for a beavertail grip safety that does not have the hammer slot, but rather a larger clearance in the beavertail itself.
The radius cut needs to be .250".
I had a King's #207 grip safety like this, but it has a proprietary, compound radius cut.
I like the idea of not having to have a slot for the hammer that will carry debris.
I've found drop in beavertail safeties like this, but if I wanted a drop in, I wouldn't have cut the frame and installed an Ed Brown
Check out Clark Custom.
That is a Clark grip safety and AFAIK, they stopped making them (at least that's what they told me when I bought the last one) I don't know of another similar grip safety. The Kings 206C can be reshaped to be very close to the shape of the Clark but I don't know what the compound radius is that Kings uses. It's definitely not the same as a Wilson.
I'm not sure that trapped debris is an issue though.
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What about a beavertail from Jim Hoag?
He won't sell them as parts.
The King's beavertails and Safari Arms (similar to Kings with an equally undesirable radius, of which there are no filing jigs available for) are the only ones that meet your criteria of no hammer pocket. You might cast about for an used old Wilson #66, but they too have an offset radius, but at least you can use Wilson's filing jog.
Of course, if you're capable, you can re-machine the radius in the beavertail to .250" and get what you want.
Kings. 206C, I think.
Safari Arms also known as Olympic Arms uses beavertail grip safeties without the hammer grove or atleast they use to. I have one somewhere that has never been used. I would normally try and help you out but I have two major problems one I am overseas and two I am not sure where that darned safety is at.
Looks like I'm going to have a #206 remade to a .250 radius. However, preferring to have a ready supply, I'll look into Olympic Arms as well.
Sometimes you just have to think outside of the box.
After a customer voiced concerns, I found myself facing a similar problem with his grip safety. Instead of replacing the existing part, I modified the original.
Voila!
Problem solved. No muss, no fuss.
An elegant and brilliant, yet simple solution to the problem of debris in the recess! I'd bet we will see many, many copies of this in the future!