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Here are a few High Powers to fantasize about:

Yost hard-chromed HP:



Don Williams HP:

Ouch, that hurt. I would love to see more of Don's Hi Powers. I have heard alot about them but haven't seen one yet. Nice work fellas. I still regret selling a Yostage HP. I should have my head examined.

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"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
- General George Patton Jr

I love the Hi-Power! One of the neat things is that there aren't that many guys building them up, so individual styles are pretty easy to distinguish. There's Novak's, C&S, Jim Garthwaite, Don, meself, and maybe a couple of others, each with a fairly unique but recognizable style. I can't wait to see Ned's spin on a Hi-Power. The traditionalist in me shudders to think about a non- traditional frontstrap treatment, but still I'm somehow perversely curious....

Caliber arguments notwithstanding, the Hi-Power is elegant, durable, reasonably accurate, and has wonderful human engineering. ( Once little niceties like a proper safety and decent sights are added ).

Steve - I thought you did have your head examined!

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

TR

I know what you're sayin' Ted, but one thing I'm able to do most of the time is look at a piece of work and say, "they coulda done that back in the '40's or heck, even the '20's or before". Once in a while I make it a theme but mostly it's just a humbling afterthought. That being said it's been a while since I whittled on one and I have some real abominations saved up

Thanks very much for your momentary lapse of reason. It is in good company with my Hoag and Garthwaite High Powers. Now I need to find a nice 1960s High Power for Don to do......

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John Del Pinto

Ted,

Is that the one I saw at your shop last August?

Just so you know, you FORCED me against my will to go buy a BHP practical model to customize.

Now hurry up and make that waiting list go away, so you can get to the BHP.

Ray

I just finished my first Conamyds-on-a-BHP job, front and back straps. Came out pretty good, I eased up on the depth over the thin spots on the front, basically they go from full depth, faded to .005 or so over the thin spots, so they pretty much only look like they're there, so as not to break up the pattern; then on the sides they go back to full depth. The backstrap was no prob of course, in fact as I was truing it up I took another .025 off it just to slim things up a bit.

This was a "partial" job, just the Conamyds and a beavertail, for one of the 'smiths at SSK. Next one will get a lot more metal taken off the backstrap, if the owner will go along with it. Plenty there, the thinnest spot I found was at the half-moon clearance cut for the hammer strut, about .080.

I've already sent it off, I'm going to ask the guy to bring it to the Single Stack all put together so I can maybe get some pics, although I don't expect him to have it all done by then. Actually I'm going to try and talk him into letting me do the rest of the work so I can claim the whole package as coming from me. I am leaning more and more towards doing complete guns only these days but always find it hard to tell people "no" to certain things.

Ned, can you post any pictures?? A High Power with Conamyds would like pretty awesome!

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John Del Pinto

If/when I get them, I'll put them up.

Hello. Please do post pictures of this as you can.

Thanks in advance.

Best.

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