Al, this is not for publication, but the Dremel work, I farm it out
I'll sketch in a few details a bit at a time here:
Base gun, Colt Cunsite GSP CCO, so, Commander slide on an alloy Officers frame.
Magwell and sights are machined from 4130. Tritium inserts are recessed forward; front sight has a stainless insert to make a "big dot" per customer specs. Thought about platinum here butas you can see we were on a budget
. Rear sight is vertical and serrated in front for slide rackability on belt, etc. As you can see the magwell is not unlike a Heinie and here I tip my hat to Richard and say, I can't pretend I'da dreamed this up without ever seeing one of your bolt-ons. Customer wanted full-width so this is the route we took.
Frontstrap, MSH, grip safety pad, mag release, trigger guard underside have Shallowmyds with a "double-X" pattern. No, the customer is not an apprentice pron-star (to the best of my knowledge).
The grips, ah, the grips. Customer sent a set of Larry Davidson's work. But we wanted to go thin..... usually I just take the gripsand thinthem out but this time I called Larry and he sent the same grips only in the thin version. Very nice stuff..... we wanted them "blacker" so I dyed them.
Since Steve and Ted already let the cat outta the bag, bluing was done at YoBo. Correction, very nicely done at YoBo. The frame ws supposed to be shiny sided too, but my anodizer (a private source) has trouble reading instructions sometimes. I sent it for stripping, the idea being I would do a few finishing touches and polish the sides, and return it for black anodizing. The got it, stripped it, and reanodized it. We decided to go with that. Next time the instructions get wire-tagged right to the gun, in large print.
This gun has a lot of work into it, and I'd sure hate to put the first scratch in it, but the customer will not be taking it out of the safe on weekends to show around while serving cappucino. I finished another 1911 for him a year ago, no less elaborate than this one, and he carries it daily for work and has I don't know how many thousand rounds of 230 JHP through it. He's a guy who knows how to shoot and continues to work on it, and has seen an elephant or three. Not claiming him as a steely eyed stealth ninja to boost myself here, just wanting to point out that he's a workin' man who knows guns and likes them a certain way, not a collector. He's a great customer and friend. BTW, I love cappucino and don't think there's anything wrong with drinking it while admiring custom guns
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Oh yeah, lanyard loop-- he wants them. When thinning up the MSH, you lose some of the space needed to do a slot-and-pin type, so, since it's rare enough that he really needs one, I've done both his guns the way you see it here, a slot for a Zip-tie to fasten the gun to the lanyard.
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