Replies

• bullsi1911 Moderator Posts: 9,729 Senior Member

  July 2014 #2

  Personally, I'd leave it as is. I like stainless on a 1911.
  
  But if you have to have it spray painted, go two tone Black/ battleship gray.

  To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
  -Mikhail Kalashnikov

  0
• DanChamberlain Senior Member Posts: 3,375 Senior Member

  July 2014 #3

  Do a "melt" job, bead blast the hell out of it and love it.

  It's a source of great pride for me, that when my name is googled, one finds book titles and not mug shots. Daniel C. Chamberlain

  0
• Eli Senior Member Posts: 3,074 Senior Member

  July 2014 #4

  T'wer it I......checkered front-strap, carry bevel, 10-8 sights, matte grey cerakote, and G-10 grips of some description.

  https://www.instagram.com/eli.farmer/

  0
• Diver43 Senior Member Posts: 8,669 Senior Member

  July 2014 #5

  I like it just as it is. Maybe smooth the edges and fancy grips and call it good. But if you need color do the two tone.

  Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5

  0
• Bigslug Senior Member Posts: 7,042 Senior Member

  July 2014 #6

  Arched MSH (a lanyard loop is my personal hang-up, but I don't expect you to follow me on that one:tooth:)
  
  Short trigger without holes
  
  Knock the sharp edges off the bottom of the slide
  
  Lose the Torx-head grips screws in favor of slot heads. Install little #60 O rings from the Home Depot plumbing department underneath them to prevent loosening.
  
  Mill the ramp off the front of the rear sight so you can clear malfunctions on your belt or boot heel one-handed if injured
  
  Heavy grit sandblast ALL OVER to get rid of the smooth
  
  Dark grey/green Cera-Kote that simulates WWII Parkerizing on all parts but the sights, which would remain black. Make sure you do a few magazines too.
  
  Brown Strider Knives G10 grips.
  
  Of late, I'm leaning more to the ambi safeties that use a slot on an elongated sear pin to retain the right side lever instead of the type that use the grip for that task.

  WWJMBD?
  
  "Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee

  0
• Teach Senior Member Posts: 18,429 Senior Member

  August 2014 #7

  Brownell's sells a stainless steel "bluing" system that turns stainless a dark blue-black color. It's called "Oxynate # 84." Give their tech department a call and ask if there's a gunsmith in your area who is set up to do it, as it's a multi-tank hot salts system, definitely not a home brew situation.
  Jerry

  Hide and wail in terror, Eloi- - - -We Morlocks are on the hunt!
  ASK-HOLE Someone who asks for advice and always does something opposite

  0
• jbp-ohio Senior Member Posts: 9,560 Senior Member

  August 2014 #8

  I would 'blue' the slide and............. that's it!
  
  

  "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson

  0
• bisley Senior Member Posts: 10,653 Senior Member

  August 2014 #9

  All good ideas - thanks!
  
  I took it out and fondled it a little (the pistol, that is) and I can't decide whether to do any of it, or not. I only shoot it at the range, so it's not urgent that I make it more carry friendly. I'll mull it over a bit.

  0
• snake284 Senior Member Posts: 21,855 Senior Member

  August 2014 #10

  To unnecessarily molest that beautiful work of art is a sin. Springfield Armory makes firearms as God intended them. :jester:

  Daddy, what's an enabler?
  Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.

  0