Can you please tell me why you want particularly a Steyr LP10? I am asking this question because I had a LP10 and abandoned it after 2 years. I went for a Hammerli AP40 which I always cherished (I love it's looks) and I am still using it with pleasure since 3 years. In my club we are 5 persons to have abandoned the LP10 for other guns mostly Morinis. I started shooting with a pump action AP called FAS and then graduated to the Steyr LP2 (club weapon). Started scoring well with the LP2, thought myself to be a champ and bought the LP10 and never reached the scores of the LP2.
You need to have a very good level of skill to control the LP10 trigger (Champions' gun
). Moreover, the recoil absorption system will very nicely dissimulate an error you would have produced during the trigger work. So it is difficult for a beginner to perceive an error and learn from it. On the contrary, I love the LP2. Although the trigger is apparently same as that of the LP10 (I find it less difficult to control than the LP10), it is very communicative with the shooter. The muzzle flip will tell the shooter what went right or wrong and help him/her to learn more. It is an excellent AP for a beginner and way more.The Morinis have excellent trigger mechanisms, much easier to control and hence give a lot of confidence.
Here is a non exhaustive list of the APs used by the regular competitors of our club here in Paris.
8 Steyr LP2s, 6 Morinis (4 electronic & 2 mechanic), 5 Steyr LP10s, 2 Hammerli AP40s, 1 Pardini K12, 1 Pardini K10, 1 Walther LP300XT, 1 Sam K11.
12 of them participated in the Nationals 2012 (4 Morinis, 3 LP2s, 2 LP10s, 2 Pardinis & 1 Walther)
We have a 23 year old very good shooter who is ranked in the first 15 of France in AP and 6th in Free Pistol. He shoots with Morini mechanical trigger AP after having abandoned his LP10
since 2010 . He never reached 560 with the LP10 and he has never shot below 562 with the Morini, the best official score being 577 with the same in Feb'12.The Izzy is the best option of the two you have selected. Otherwise go for a Morini mechanical trigger 2nd hand or a Pardini K2 2nd hand if possible. Buy an AP which has a perciptible muzzle reaction (natural vertical flip); you will learn pistol shooting more easily.
best regards
tirpassion
, on the pretext that it was too hard to carve. He is perhaps not wrong. A softer wood is easier to carve out. 
) - in fact I was thinking of the "kath" or the "khair" tree you find in jungles of Konkan - just haven't got around going there yet. It's the wood you find as handles of spade and pick-ax. Now if MR tree is that soft - it will be a problem. Why ? One, in the long term the hand grip will 'change' the wooden grip but before that remember there's a vast pressure generated from the web to the blade where the blade presses against and is restricted by the wrist rest (or whatever it's called). Thus the "holes" would tend to grow and the "rest" becomes history... (pun intended) 
Or if some sort of metal shymmie (sp?) or threas can be inserted in the drilled holes which would stay there till eternity, it might work too. Anyway, let me know of what you think of my thoughts and we can explore during the auspicious period of pitru-paksh.