been thinking about doing this for a while now and finally got the time and ambition today. started with my 5 year old para-ord slim hawg in black
definitely showing some wear and being my first 1911 when i got it of course it has the "idiot scratch"
stripped her down to the frame and tossed the parts i was working on in a plastic bowl and sprayed them with aircraft paint remover
unfortunately the stripper didn't do nearly as well as i had hoped so i spent a lot of time on the buffing wheel with jewelers rouge doing my best not to launch parts across the garage. ended up looking something like this
however as you can see the serrated area looks a bit different (i didn't take a before pic after polishing) but for that i taped off the entire slide except for the serrated area and sandblasted it in my blast cabinet, i think it looks pretty sweet personally! final product looks like this
YES, sadly for the moment the idiot scratch is still there, but i have a friend who has access to powdercoating at no charge so the next time he runs black i'm gonna have him do the frame for me
so whattaya think? special thanks to wild deuce for the use of his sight pusher and billyboyr6 for the inspiration https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/handguns/125202-pair_of_paras.html
also got a set of rosewood grips coming soon and i'll update the pics when they get here.
definitely showing some wear and being my first 1911 when i got it of course it has the "idiot scratch"
stripped her down to the frame and tossed the parts i was working on in a plastic bowl and sprayed them with aircraft paint remover
unfortunately the stripper didn't do nearly as well as i had hoped so i spent a lot of time on the buffing wheel with jewelers rouge doing my best not to launch parts across the garage. ended up looking something like this
however as you can see the serrated area looks a bit different (i didn't take a before pic after polishing) but for that i taped off the entire slide except for the serrated area and sandblasted it in my blast cabinet, i think it looks pretty sweet personally! final product looks like this
YES, sadly for the moment the idiot scratch is still there, but i have a friend who has access to powdercoating at no charge so the next time he runs black i'm gonna have him do the frame for me
so whattaya think? special thanks to wild deuce for the use of his sight pusher and billyboyr6 for the inspiration https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/handguns/125202-pair_of_paras.html
also got a set of rosewood grips coming soon and i'll update the pics when they get here.
