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Clark Customs is the most widely known for Melt jobs...

@WC145 has one heck a fine example.

Yes, I know. I think Clark may be the originator? Clark had the melt job before Kimber did the CDP. But that wasn’t a Clark I was referring to. The dealer got it from Kimber. Maybe Kimber only did a few of those because they were more labor intensive or just too radical for the average bear.
 
Clark Customs is the most widely known for Melt jobs...

@WC145 has one heck a fine example.
Yes, I know. I think Clark may be the originator? Clark had the melt job before Kimber did the CDP. But that wasn’t a Clark I was referring to. The dealer got it from Kimber. Maybe Kimber only did a few of those because they were more labor intensive or just too radical for the average bear.
@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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@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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Now that’s a MELT!

Love it!
 
@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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@WC145 thank you For sharing again I love this one!!!!!!
 
@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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Possibly one of the prettiest 1911s any of us will ever see. That deep polished blue finish, the ivory stocks, frontstrap checkering, sublime front and rear sight... My wife said, there's no such thing as "gun porn" and I showed her these pics... she said, "Oh!"
 
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