@tarosean , thanks for thinking of me. Clark Custom Guns came out with the Meltdown around '96-'97, it was a whole package from the sights to the mags, came with Clark's accuracy guarantee and everything. The Kimber version was a blatant rip off of the Clark offering but you never heard anything about that because everyone knew Kimber from all the ads and magazine articles and Clark lived in comparative obscurity unless you were a bullseye shooter or 1911 aficionado. That said, kudos to Kimber for taking the chance on something pretty radical, since a heavy melt is something people either love or hate. The Clark guns are melted more than the Kimbers were, but even Clark has backed off on it some over the years, their early guns had a lot more metal removed than they do now. My Meltdown is a Colt 1991A1 that they did in 1998. Clark still offers the Meltdown Package, they'll do it on your gun or they'll build you one on a Caspian frame and slide.
https://clarkcustomguns.com/custom-gun/1911-custom-meltdown/
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