Ok Yorky. Teddy does not jewel barrel hoods with a jig unless he just started doing it. I like it because of the Bling Factor. (BF). Teddy works in Stainless Steel which I rarely use and the reason he does that is because of the grief re -finishers cause pistolsmiths. He can complete his SS 1911's without a bead blaster or a finisher so that is what he does, to the best of my knowledge. Teddy does things that no one else does and for reasons that are known only to him. The ceramic coatings are done with an air brush and I believe that it is a way to prevent the SS from galling. He does very interesting things. He designed the trigger that Carlos does and gave it away. He has also designed a much better trigger that will be featured someday in a magazine. Be advised that I am on Teddy's Black List and he hates me now.
I am not a fan of the external extractor at all. I have been using guns with them on the slide for 50 years and see no reason to fault them, they are fine until they get dirty, and then the fun begins. Many manufacturers use them in an attempt to make something old look like something new. They are also hard to come by, from what I have heard, and they can break like any other part. They have a pin holding them in with a tiny coil spring doing the tension and to me, that is it. I would never attempt to adjust one. I have never had any problem with the original JMB design and like the interior extractor in all the calibers I have built 1911's in. In 38 Super Race Guns, the ejector and extractor has to be tuned just right to get the brass out of the port and past the scope mount without hitting anything. It takes some tweaking, but can be done with a little spare time. A proper part will go for a very long time without adjustment and I find them fairly forgiving as to tension. They do not have to be perfect, all they have to do is kick that case out of there. I call the external extractors another wonderful soultion to a non existant problem. I do not think it makes much difference either way and some of the factories use it as a sales tool because they know what suckers we all are. I have been doing a chamber check notch on my barrel hoods for over 20 years and now Kimber calls it a "Loaded Chamber Indicator" and has a patent pending on it. They also build my Short Sword and call it a Pro-Carry, but Colt and I were there long befopre anyone had ever heard the name Kimber. Colt was first, by the way. Oh well. Hang around, Yorky, and have some fun with us.
