Neat! Is that a gage pin or some fixturing in the top pistol with the Chin housing?

And a welded Norc! You buy a TIG? Interesting.....

 

Very nice........keep 'em coming fellas!

 

In, but only as a spectator, this has the potential to be an awesome thread.:rock:

 

Barrel fitting

 

Caspian Frame ready to checker at 20LPI.

Finished but needs some clean up.

 

Nice job.

 

 

Now this is a thread I could get addicted to...

 

Now this is a thread I could get addicted to...

Could?

Pistolwrench had me at.... "Everybody is welcome to post pics."

Maybe 1911 forums.com is in the throes of a rebirth afterall. . ....

 

Best thread ever. I love these kind of pictures.

 

do airguns count?

 

Where are the sights? Or does a red dot or other optic attach to the holes in the front of the slide? Or simply point shooting?

Great thread!!

 

Modified EGW vs EGW out of the package

 

Modified EGW vs EGW out of the package

Now that’s a really nice fit. Outstanding work

 

Well.... Long story short I had to radius the rear of a rear sight and I wanted it re-serrated too. I wanted to match it to the slide's radius at the rear. As-wuz, it was doing this unsightly overhang thing.. I decided to do it a little differently than I have before.

I think it was my very first shipwreck dive where I picked up this piece of steel. Not gonna say where it was because I >may< have violated a law, not realizing it at the time of course..... took a piece of coal too. At the time there was no talk of "underwater preserves" (no, that is not making jam out of seaweed or jelly out of jellyfish ;-) ).

Anyway, I had run across this thing and decided that it had been a mistake to take it off the wreck. It would never be recognized as anything but a very rusted, pitted piece of steel, and I would never be able to put it back-- one reason being, I could not even say now what the name of the wreck was! But I could put it to use. Make something new from something old (sank before the turn of the century).

So-- I cleaned up a few areas, did a little mill work and a little torch work...... and did the deed to the sight. It was not done in the slide's dovetail, it was done in another setup.

 

Ned,
That may well be the coolest smiffin' story EVER!

Show more pics cause I don't think many here grasp the idea.

 

Please do. I have no idea what that contraption does. Looks interesting though.

 

You guys need a Proto-Trak!

 

Veerrry clever, Sir Ned...
:rock:

 

Ned's gadget is basically a Bridgeport mill boring bar, but cutting on the "inside"

 

Ahhhh......Now that I've looked at it on an actual computer screen that makes perfect sense.

Very clever use of scrap indeed!

 

Its a space modulator!!

 

Ned, is that a slide mounted charging handle? If it is, you're doing it wrong.

 

You got it right RdB. Like boring but on the inside of the sweep. It holds a little cutter made out of a broken-off 1/8 end mill. Here's a pic of it as I got started.

RdB, what is a proto-track?

 

GREAT to see you posting here Ned!

I think that hunk of iron might have been a chariot axle before the birth of Christ.

 

That's some very serious recycling of old stock, Ned..
Jerry

 

After 150 years on the bottom I figured it deserved a little action!

Next: 1911 frames and slides cut from Bismark hull plates!

 

The smiffin version of American Picker

 

Sharkbeast, Where we're going, we don't need Sights!!

But a red dot will attach to the holes in the dustcover seen in the bottom pic

 

I think the shootists ejection port could clear cinder blocks. How far is the bottom of the port from the bottom of the slide?

 

magwell machining



Front sight fuzzy's





machine honed barrel tunnel



Chen magwell in progress







Full profile carry comp 38super



Re-blend after weld up



hand cut rear slide serration on slide that was blued in house.

 

machine honed barrel bushing to .001





Beaver tail weld up and refit





Blast port for full profile carry comp