zen_hopper, Fil is one of my best friends ever. I won't even get started as it would get extrememly long, but he's top shelf in every way (including bowling pin shooting, yes. I'll bet we've fired tens of thousands of rounds just at pins, while shooting either against each other or together as part of a team.)
The safety on this little 9 is indeed pivoted in a different place, since I cut the rear of the frame so high that the original safety pivot hole is.... gone.
Gary, I'll do this much for your Chrismas stocking-- that lump of coal I had for you, I'll carve it into the shape of a 1911
Damian, PLEASE don't fire your F1 Space Modulator, those things have too much collector value since the F2's and F3A1's came out. Ah, what am I talking about-- you've probably already caught a lethal dose from the byzanium power crystal anyway, they tended to leak, hence the F2.