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I just finished this one up the other day.
It's set up with an optional magwell and two sets of grips.
Rear sight is a modified 'Tier One' of my manufacture.
Front sight is my 'Whiteball' design.
Finish is Graphite Black Cerakote applied over a base of manganese phosphate.
thats a beautiful firearm roger. I just got a new Rock Island nickel plated 1911 and its a goot shooter for a good price but I realy have my heart set on getting a colt or springfield soon. I like the grey springfield you have at the top of your site. can you give me a quote?
And this is the first time that I've found the french cuts appealing. Something about the contrast created by them - the line appears to be darker than the finish of the pistol.
Fine functional pistol, and the sight is a masterpiece. It must have taken as long to get it just right as it took for all the rest of the metalwork.
The fit and finish of your guns always blows my mind, I've specifically always admired how smooth your magwells looked.
If you don't mind me asking (I'm not looking for any trade secrets), what do you do to get such a good blend in that area? Is it simply time and files, applied with a skilled hand, is electricity involved, or what?
Try as I might, I simply cannot get the perfect lines and contours that you do. Perhaps that's why you are getting paid to make cool guns, and I'm not?
Tenifer is not a coating it is a metal treatment. It is not appropriate to compare ceracote or any other coating to the tenifer treating process.
from saarstahl.com:
Tenifer treatment
Tenifer treatment is a salt bath process especially developed from soft nitriding. As a nitrogen carrier, a KCN/KCNO salt bath with air cooling is used. The parts are treated at approx.. 570°C for between 30 and 120 min. and are then cooled in water or air, depending on the material and shape.
The surface which has been treated in this way, consists of two layers, a so-called connecting zone and, beneath that, a diffusion zone. The former consists of carbon nitrides and is betwee 12 and 16µ thick. The latter contains released nitrogen which precipitates and forms needle-shaped nitrides only during slow cooling or annealing at over 300°C. In alloy steels, special nitrides form in the diffusion zone. Both zones are more than 0.6 mm thick .
Tenifer treatement has proved itself in particular for the treatment of parts which are subjected to sliding friction (e.g. at bearings). The diffusion zone means that the fatigue strength is also increased. The improved sliding properties result from the improved friction coefficients in the connecting zone meaning that seizing is prevented. Tenifer treated parts also have a certain resistence to corrosion.
Flat bottomed hole cut into each side. Two stainless pins turned on lathe. Will be press fit into the holes and machined to provide a tight fit with the frame.
Pins finished. Ribs peened and fitted.
The visible porosity in the silver solder around the pin hole, only extends to where it filled the original, exterior chamfer.
Now this mag well fits the frame with no play in any direction. Milling and finishing of the internal funnel can begin.
As rough machined.
After contouring with an 1/8" diamond cut carbide burr in a Dremel.
Finished!
Same frame with the fitted standard mainspring housing.
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