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  • Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Little bit more done…that’s a relative term. The trigger itself has over an hour and a half on it. The polish on the back of the bow smooth out disconnector/trigger interface during pull and disconnect. The divot you see was to reduce lateral movement to the left of the pistol. It is actually a takeoff from another pistol and was slightly oversized for this one. Sometimes things work out.
     

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    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
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    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Hammer and sear, Cylinder & Slide and Thunder Mountain Custom respectively. The sear is hard…about 52 RC! Hammer is coated stainless and no slouch in RC rating.

    Sear:
    Sides spot smoothed, before and after pics;
    Disconnector and sear spring interfaces smoothed;
    Primary angle cut and secondary cut;
    Face intersection broken.

    Hammer:
    Hooks set to desired depth (this IS a very nice hammer);
    Hook tip corners broken.

    Sear spring, TMC.
    Corners already smoothed but hit it with a stone anyway;
    Cutout between leaves deburred.

    Sear/hammer swipe pattern, comparator image of correct sear/hook relationship.
     

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    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    FYI, Pic of how I load the trigger bow toward the bottom of the track. I do this to determine how much to remove off the top and bottom of the trigger pad. This trigger required the bottom only be trued. The lion’s share of the fitting was at the top of the pad.

    As said earlier, over 1.5 hours in the trigger. In reality, around two hours is more accirate. Lots of measuring…
     

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    Sticky

    Beware of Dog
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    You guys are bad.. very bad... this is one of my bucket list items. The ultimate hand fitted build.

    Damn you! :lol2:

    This just ain't the right time, or is it? :innocent0
     

    Rockzilla

    Ultimate Member
    Feb 6, 2010
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    Mag, great progress, great detail / picz in the steps. waiting on
    the range report...I know don't push it. Then people wonder why
    a "one off" custom 1911 costs so much.Again great work.

    :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:


    -Rock
     

    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Thank you all. Not too far from getting it completed. Then it is time to do the function and accuracy testing. Will be posting more pics. This is a labor of love. But when one is done and it runs…the gun fits one’s hand…it is worth it.

    I think I am going to high cut behind the trigger guard. Stipple the front strap, too.
     

    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Small update, kinda busy and on the go. A few more processes in the works.

    Pics of fitting the…
    - slide stop
    - magazine catch
    - peening and fitting the mainspring housing rails
    - smoothing and blending the mainspring housing for stippling
    - Yes, the housing WAS checkered
    - front strap stippling layout and border work, a little design investigation in the process
     

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    Magnumite

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    6,564
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    Worked on the stippling. Sometime the DNA is apparent.
     

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    boothdoc

    Ultimate Member
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    Mar 23, 2008
    5,133
    Frederick county
    I am still following this. I have a few frames and been loading up on parts. Maybe over the winter I will try my hand at one.
     

    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Thank you. Ejector installed, rear roughed in, preliminary tuned.
     

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    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Fully assembled, in the rough. Ready for sights, test fire, and tune.

    After that, finish blending, texturing, and parking.
     

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    Magnumite

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Well, took the pistol on its maiden voyage. Had some feed issues. I had ensured magazine and cartridge would not contact the EGW ejector nose when inserting a magazine and while the mag was in the pistol. However, the high shelf EGW mag catch caused the case rim to contact the forward half of the ejector, so reduction surgery there is in order.

    Some pics of fitting burnish marks.

    Blue marked pics are barrel locking point against slide lugs.
    Orange ring pic is where the barrel is cammed into the bottom of the barrel bushing.
    Red ring pic is where the barrel is cammed into the topnn of the barrel bushing.
    Two pics of the top and rear of slide stop pin with hard contact by both barrel lugs.
     

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    Magnumite

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    Dec 17, 2007
    6,564
    Harford County, Maryland
    Now some performance info. Did some closer in stuff to adjust the sights, the pistol was shooting Ammunition used was Winchester White Box, 230 grain ball.
    Target shown was about 28 yards, standing two hands. Two seven round mags. The red circles were called fliers.
    The green circled shot was a lower recoiling round though not a squib. The gun shoots. m
    The video clip…clays were on the berm at 33 yards, IIRC. I smoked five of six before setting up a second array.
    One the first shot of the second array I hit just…really just…off the edge of the clay which sent it rolling. Anyway,I hit it on the roll at the bottom of the berm.
     

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    Rockzilla

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    “polish the bottom (frame) matte the upper (slide)”

    just may do that…instead of parking it…do the rust blue to it.

    just a thought.... have a Clark Custom Bottom Is Polished (frame) more on the chrome side,
    the top (slide) is like bead blasted satin look.. Have to find a pic of it or take one. The Rust
    blue would look great also. Got enuff stuff "parked" but that's me.


    -Rock
     

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