Parkerized 1911 frame?

[wojownik]

Looking around for a parkerized green 1911 frame (stripped or complete). Anyone know who sells these? My google searching seems to have failed me.

Backstory - While searching for Springfield 1911 GI model on the used market, I came into a couple of USGI replacement slides. Looking to mate these with some parkerized lowers to make a two 1911 USGI clone range toys for myself. My first 1911 project guns, though I have a good number of factory 1911s in the stable.

So, searching the world for a parkerized OD green 1911 frame, reasonably close to the USGI parkerization. Any suggestions?

Thx!

 

[AlexanderA]

Sarco has stripped, parkerized RIA frames for $120.

http://www.e-sarcoinc.com/search.aspx?find=1911+frame&log=false&category=468

 

[Drail]

I think most of the "green" Parked guns you have seen are G.I. Park that has reacted to chemicals and storage oils for many years. I don't know anyone who does Park work in green today. It's all either grey or black. As far as I remember G.I. guns were always done in grey Park. But some of them got exposed to nasty stuff in the field.

 

[wojownik]

The two replacement slides have a "greenish" park. So, I guess I need to find out what nasty stuff I need to expose a Rock Island frame to, lol. Wish the old Springer GI models were still around - I could mate the slide to one of those frames. Yeah, I'm one of those matching-colors OCD guys ...

I think most of the "green" Parked guns you have seen are G.I. Park that has reacted to chemicals and storage oils for many years. I don't know anyone who does Park work in green today. It's all either grey or black. As far as I remember G.I. guns were always done in grey Park. But some of them got exposed to nasty stuff in the field.

 

[Drail]

Cerakote was invented for you guys........ If I were going to build up a "G.I." gun I would simply have the whole thing Parked. I have always like Parked finishes. It was the best finish the Dept. of War could find and it works great if you keep some oil on it.

 

[JTQ]

Wish the old Springer GI models were still around - I could mate the slide to one of those frames.

The Mil-Spec is still around, and I think the frame is the same as the GI model. The Mil-Spec differences were in the slide.

https://www.springfield-armory.com/products/1911-mil-spec-45-acp/

 

[CapnMac]

The "green" color was a mix of wartime "lean" (e.g. "gray") parkerizing, and then a thorough coating in cosmoline and waxed brown "butcher" paper for a longish period of time. How long a time is a matter of more than some conjecture.

Technically, a black "oxide" finish is mil-spec for the era.

 

[Spats McGee]

I had some stuff commercially parkerized in the 1980s, and every one of them is green.

 

[Hasaf]

My Springfield Armoury M1911-A1 that I purchased in the '80s has green parkerizing.

 

[drband]

Oil and impurities being absorbed into the gray/black parkerizing turn it greenish. It's definitely an "old" look.