Decent 1911's

[Joelski]

Operation: Save the Colt is just about ready to commence! After buying a metric shit ton of parts and even more tools, I've got it stripped to bare nothing and am blocking and polishing the flats, grinding down the frame tangs for a beaver tail GS install, and making plans to work up to checkering the front strap. Slide is going to Noval for dovetails and sights and I need to find a blaster to give the rounds a bead blast finish. All that will be left is some random polishing/blending and it'll be ready for reassembly. Easy-peasy, nipple squeezy! This gun will showcase the Gospel of the great John Moses Browning and once it's done, I'll be in the market for a series 70 Govt model in blue and then I can order my Alchemy Custom Weaponry Prime Elite Carry! Still mulling over the optic cut for an SRO, but will probably leave that for a Quantico Hi-Cap build, or a Schauland Performance Monolith. Somebody Stop me!! At this point, plastic guns have all but lost their lustre for me and the power of cold, hard steel is what gets my blood pumping like back when all this stuff was new and fresh. hell it still is for me. Sorry for the enthusiasm, trying to resurrect some of the life on the forum.

[Stone]

That OTIS file set is sweet! I searched earlier and its discontinued but found a place that has the last half a dozen of them on the planet in stock, ordered 2 sets! If anyone is interested PM me... Dude, is that a mixing board?

[Joelski]

Tascam 32 track digital recorder.

Files are a particular rabbit hole with 1911's. I'm just finally getting my checkering files sorted; one more order ought to do it. I don't want to start the job until I have everything and Brownells is pretty much it for that kind of stuff.

[Joelski]

"Save the Colt" is humming along, as time permits. I've been busy living life and trying not to bleed to death in the process! Trying to get more training is, but with an ill parent in the house, and nobody but me to do the caretaking, it severely cramps time for fun things (But also keeps me from bleeding to death). I shoot on private property, so running and gunning is a standard thing. My aim is "moment of small print" on the back of the local shop's pizza boxes as well as silhouettes and coyotes under NODs. Just getting my wind back from those damn blood clots in both lungs; I think it was the 'rona, and am trying to find a way to prove it so I can get off these damn blood thinners eventually. Like I said, progress on the pistol is slow going with learning a process, then practicing and then completing it. Not keen to ruin a 40 year-old pistol being over-enthusiastic, so I have to grow my own talent as I go. Here's a couple pics to atone for my absence:Grinding down the frame tabs to replace the GI grip safety with a Wilson bullet proof beavertail.Fine-tuning the fit of the GS:Don't worry, I wasn't going to leave it skanky lookingLil' test fit. The slide is at Novak's getting dovetails cut, and some night sights.After the slide comes back and I get the FCG tuned up, the next steps will be checkering the front strap and then fitting a new Kart barrel. After that, I think it'll be pretty much done, other than bead blasting the rounds. I'm looking forward to test-firing this gun for the first time since I got it. As far as hand-fitting parts and doing things yourself, I highly recommend it if you have the temperament. Doing this is several levels beyond assembling AR parts; you can't put metal back (well, easily), and mistakes get expensive fast. I have banked several new skills that will serve me in the future as I'm sure this won't be the only rescue project now that I know I can do this! Hope everybody is doing well. This is still too nice a place not to hang out some. Take care, fellas!