**IMAGE HEAVY** My customized SP-101 is finished....

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

the work was performed by Mark Hartshorne of Pinnacle High Performance in Pennsylvania.

- Milled underlug & slabsides.
- Action Job.
- Smoothed trigger (stock edges were sharp)
- Bobbed hammer.
- Chamfered cylinders.
- Fiber front site.

























I also have some more 'Brothers' pics with the SP & it's bigger GP brother.
I'll post them next.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Brothers.....

 

[SamG.]

NICE guns!

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Oh....


I like this pic too.
Focus is on the Gold Dots!

 

[scrat]

Gary that is so friggen CLEAN. i dont know how much you paid but those look so nice. especially those edges. Wow what a fantastic clean up.

 

[ArchAngelCD]

Gary,
What happened to the "billboard" on the barrel???

j/k It looks great, very nice job indeed!!!

 

[blutarsky]

actually i'd be interested in knowing ballpark figure for cost -- i have a 3" gp100 and thought about having similar work done (or keeping the gp100 stock and getting an sp101 like this -- sounds familiar eh?).

looks very nice.

 

[461]

Now I really like that!! I think I just spent some money in my mind.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

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Scrat said - "Gary that is so friggen CLEAN. i dont know how much you paid but those look so nice. especially those edges. Wow what a fantastic clean up."

Look here:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=137014&highlight=Dhart

BTW - Where IS Dhart???? Is he still around???



Cost for SP work was $334

 

[Brian Williams]

I have had a couple of my S&Ws worked on by Mark, He does great work and that SP is fine.

 

[scrat]

i think he posted on the gunsmithing forum. Wow he sure does good work.



Ok well boys i have to get off this thing. My wife is giving me the evil eye. something about spending more time on the computer than spending time with her or something.


What i cant here you.


The computer is turned down. Speakers are off



What turn it off.


ok DEAR



bye boys

 

[Sun195]

I don't normally care much for Rugers, but that looks very nice!

 

[19-3Ben]

oh my lord that's sexy.

 

[MCMXI]

Gary,
That's a VERY, VERY nice revolver and great photos too!! Maybe a stupid question, but the hammer looks like it's thinner as well as being bobbed so did Mark have to change any springs to account for the lighter hammer. Have you shot it yet? How about a photo or two of the back end of the cylinder showing the chamfered cylinders. This is something that I'm interested in having done on a couple of revolvers.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Very nice - now an unfluted cylinder would make it off the chain!

 

[SimpleIsGood229]

That is possibly the nicest SP I've ever seen! That's a very nice pair you have there.

Yeah, really, where's DHart been? That guy was crazy about 3" .357's and his exceedingly excellent photography showed it.

 

[machinisttx]

I think I'm going to have to slab side the barrel when I get a 3" SP101 to replace my current 2.25".

 

[bosh71]

Thanks for the great photos.Excellent job.

 

[Brasso]

Very nice!

Talking about customizations, I really wish that someone would come out with a S&W style hammer for the Ruger's. The factory, squared design, could use some improvement. Ruger also needs to smooth the trigger face on their guns. They do tend to be sharp and can cut or pull up a blister on the trigger finger after a box of full power loads.

 

[Drgong]

Fiber front site looks nice...might have to look into that...

 

[DAdams]

Very nice. I really like that slab side underlugged look. Clean.

 

[hksw]

Mmm. That do look nice.

The slab side flats look very good on that little gun.

 

[Rokyudai]

So..darned...envious!

Very nice and congrats! Be safe!

Rok

 

[bflobill_69]

Lovely =P

...got my daily dose of gun porn there

Bflobill_69

 

[Colt46]

Really nice!

How much weight was shaved off in the process? The unmodified ones are quite heavy for size.