"Micarta is usually layers of cloth in a matrix, how do you make this using rosewood?" Most likely just micarta in layers of dyed white-wood misrepresented with the buzz-word 'rosewood' for marketing purposes. I've also seen laminated-wood pistol grips actually marketed as Coco Bolo. In both cases the buzz-words should be prefaced properly with '
FAUX'.
Such shameless marketing TRICKERY is partly why we so often see consumers misrepresenting their guns'
walnut-stained hardwood stocks as walnut; sometimes purposely, occasionally not.
![180 grip cap.JPG 180 grip cap.JPG](https://www.airgunnation.com/data/attachments/327/327234-ca75b00d7dc8e6ef8b7d58e7c141fa74.jpg)
Real Rosewood (Moradillo) cap on a walnut-stained hardwood stock stripped of the walnut paint to reveal the natural grain.
![FN grip R.jpg FN grip R.jpg](https://www.airgunnation.com/data/attachments/327/327235-c83c9e6c2a10ca9097588929f6eff686.jpg)
Rosewood (Bocote) cap on real walnut beautified with a soft-luster finish.
![QB grip cap close.JPG QB grip cap close.JPG](https://www.airgunnation.com/data/attachments/327/327236-0c855c87cda0d2e1f7a57b6fc1be5855.jpg)
Real Coco Bolo on a walnut-stained hardwood stock.
Clues that the same woodworker did all three examples are the brass Phillips-head cap attachment screws, a preference for soft-luster finish rather than high-gloss, and attraction to airguns, and pistols.
![P2 Matchdot.JPG P2 Matchdot.JPG](https://www.airgunnation.com/data/attachments/327/327237-473711a7d11638e925a9ac6c7f931019.jpg)
Faux Coco Bolo (laminated wood) grips.