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Attack of the Clones! Only difference in them is the grains in the wood grips, but that seems about the only difference. Even THAT difference is MINOR. I commend you once again on your talent, it is remarkable. And... Those grips are like one of those old custom hand made English (I think) shotguns that sell for mega-bucks! Top Notch wood finishing. It must have been very difficult to match up four sets so well!
I am just amazed how CT Brian can do so much to these for guns and make them into something I never could have imagined myself. How do you dream this stuff up? How do you decide which parts to make flat steel and which to make polished?. How does all this hand tooling look so damn perfect on each and every gun? You could have been a surgeon with such steady hands. And you made 4 of a kind, not one of a kind!
Maybe some of my fellow members here have some sort of list of great 1911 guys, besides yourselves I may add, that you can tell us about. I am fully aware of the contributions that all of you gunsmiths here have each made to the Modern 1911. I know you are all very humble but Facts are facts. I wold like to learn about some of the famous people that were out there fighting with these guns like Alvin York, or if Audie Murphy used a 1911. Even guys like Jeff Cooper. Even Larry Vickers or Massad Ayoob (if he is even a 1911 guy) I'm sure some of the LTW smiths have made many guns for our un-named soldiers that get no recognition out there all over the globe.
I, for one, with my very limited knowledge of this incredible "Greatest Handgun Ever" would love to learn about some famous and really the NOT-SO-FAMOUS people that have helped to add to the folklore of this great fighting gun. Looking at these four 1911's that CT Brian built just makes me want to learn more about these guns, so for that I thank you very much indeed. I don't know if you ever give any thought of how these wonderful guns you build make people stop in their tracks and think about how far this formerly kind of crude gun(Compared to these ones here) has come some 100+ years later, but still keep basically the same parts but with a bunch of REFINEMENTS.
Please feel free(IF ANY OF YOU can recommend some light reading (Didn't a member here publish the definitive 100 year anniversary 1911 coffee table book? I seam to remember the name (Mr. Sweeney)I think I may have seen some of his posts here, unless I am just Imagining things, AGAIN! Im sure some of the Gunsmiths guns from LTW have got to be in this book.
, And soon, after a long wait in line, I plan on asking John Harrison to possibly work his magic on my Colt Anv. III. I like the retro guns that he and also Heirloom Customs (Ted Yost,Steve Bailey , Jason Burton), one of your other inovators here, make so well. That RETRO GUN IDEA is just one of the many contributions, that I was speaking of earlier that you guys here have made to the 1911. The "retro" , I think , is a great idea, shared by MANY. We cannot go foreward unless we can see where we have been. Alot of these pop-up 1911 companies have changed the gun so much that it has lost its heart and soul. These CT Brian Guns have a new and different look, but the parts are the same to start out with. Of course the monolithe is a cool gun to transform. But all the builders here keep the same true traditional 1911 gun! They keep their imaginations in check.
I even have a real nicely built Wilson Combat Lightweight Carry in the 9mm format, but I do Prefer the Les Baer of mine that I was lucky enough to have Your friend and mine: John Harrison work his magic on for me and turned it into a true "Almost Custom 1911". It sure feels custom to me now, thanks to John's talent. I love how you guy's can take a gun that I thought was great, and turn it on it's head and make it spectacular.
Your work on your CT Brian Guns shows a definite style that at one glance , you know who built it. Of course the trademark initials in the wood grips(stocks) is a DEAD give a way, but thats cheating.
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