Anyone Do Jeweling?

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I know it's kind of gone out of style so to speak, but I have a safe queen 1911 that I would like to have the barrel hood jeweled on. Are there any members here that do jeweling or any shops that don't want to charge an arm and a leg for just a small area like the barrel hood?


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It's pretty much a waste of time & money to do jeweling on a 1911 barrel hood.

Normal wear from the slide rubbing back & forth on it will soon make it look like hell.

I would shoe-shine it with 320 grit abrasive cloth.
Then you and esaily fix it again, everytime it gets scuffed by the slide again.
Which won't take long.

rc
 
It's going on a safe queen, so it won't get ruined.


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I have to further support RC on this one. IF you do this..assemble the pistol and don't ever check the chamber on it. One cycle of the slide will hash that jeweling quite quickly. The bad thing about it is that it isn't easily fixed if it starts to look bad. You have to remove it...and start over to make it look clean again. I have not had much success in jeweling over top of existing turnings.

If you want it to have that safe queen status... that is fine...but really Rc's comments are on the mark with the 320 grit suggestion. Go crazy with the shoe shine job and take it up to 600 grit if you like. It just isn't an appropriate place for jeweling as the barrel drags the inside of the slide.

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Mac.
 
I got jeweling on one of my 1911 barrels and after 200 rounds still looks good.
I also jeweled the area in the front where the barrel bushing fits.
 
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