1911 Custom Work

Op, you get back a pistol badly scratched around the front sight and a jagged edge plug....
Good for you if you don't care about.
If I pay for professional work, I'm expecting professional results.
 
DanRR said:
Op, you get back a pistol badly scratched around the front sight and a jagged edge plug....
Good for you if you don't care about.
If I pay for professional work, I'm expecting professional results.
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Absolutely agreed. Those results are completely unacceptable and I would be pretty pissed if it was my own firearm...
 
DanRR said:
Op, you get back a pistol badly scratched around the front sight and a jagged edge plug....
Good for you if you don't care about.
If I pay for professional work, I'm expecting professional results.
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well as it was only a beater to start with, I didnt let it bother me.
Anyway what's done is done,no going back now.
 
45C,
I fully understand your point.
From another side of view, any sort of communication or offer to correct (I know it is a chromed pistol, hence hard to touch up) or, to the least, a financial compensation ?
I would have found correct if the pistol had been mailed back with an explanation little note and an acceptable rebate, instead of opening a package, after a certain wait of time, with the high expectations you would be right to have and find what you received.
 
DanRR said:
45C,
I fully understand your point.
From another side of view, any sort of communication or offer to correct (I know it is a chromed pistol, hence hard to touch up) or, to the least, a financial compensation ?
I would have found correct if the pistol had been mailed back with an explanation little note and an acceptable rebate, instead of opening a package, after a certain wait of time, with the high expectations you would be right to have and find what you received.
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I personally dont know rodger, but I had a lot of long talk with him,over the phone.
He seems like a nice guy and he sure do have the gift of gab.

So ,nice guy aside,I wouldn't be sending my Colt to him for anything.
This gun was Brand new,with about 100 rounds down the pipe

I paid $700 for the gun from a store.
The upgrades cost me $520.
Upgrades were
New trigger
Trigger job
New hammer
New beaver tail
New adjustable sights.
New FLGR.
New plug.

The good
Trigger breaks at a clean 3.5 lbs ( dryfire only tested)
The sights look awesome.
The Bad
Gouges by the front sight.
The Guide rod appears to be welded together, and the part that butts up to the barrel has lumps of soldering on it.
The plug cap appears to be cut off with a grinder..lol

I sent it in the RIA container that it came from the factory,in.
It came back in a blue,very old plastic case,with newspaper stuffed in there instead of foam insert.
I had to pay the money before I seen the gun as I'm in a different province.

Would I recommend him to anybody? Definitely not.

But at the end of the day ,it was a $700 gun ,which is now a $1200 gun.
And when my 14 year old son first laid eyes on it, it was worth it.
And he didnt notice the mess up.

So for that , I can live with it and chalk it up as a lesson.
 
45C said:
I personally dont know rodger, but I had a lot of long talk with him,over the phone.
He seems like a nice guy and he sure do have the gift of gab.

So ,nice guy aside,I wouldn't be sending my Colt to him for anything.
This gun was Brand new,with about 100 rounds down the pipe

I paid $700 for the gun from a store.
The upgrades cost me $520.
Upgrades were
New trigger
Trigger job
New hammer
New beaver tail
New adjustable sights.
New FLGR.
New plug.

The good
Trigger breaks at a clean 3.5 lbs ( dryfire only tested)
The sights look awesome.
The Bad
Gouges by the front sight.
The Guide rod appears to be welded together, and the part that butts up to the barrel has lumps of soldering on it.
The plug cap appears to be cut off with a grinder..lol

I sent it in the RIA container that it came from the factory,in.
It came back in a blue,very old plastic case,with newspaper stuffed in there instead of foam insert.
I had to pay the money before I seen the gun as I'm in a different province.

Would I recommend him to anybody? Definitely not.

But at the end of the day ,it was a $700 gun ,which is now a $1200 gun.
And when my 14 year old son first laid eyes on it, it was worth it.
And he didnt notice the mess up.

So for that , I can live with it and chalk it up as a lesson.
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Good heads up. I was about to send him a couple including an STI 10mm, for hard chroming.
 
I have one built by Roger Kotanko few yrs ago, That I bought cheap on here, for less than the parts and work put into it, from a member. I don't know when he had it done.
The only part orig. is the nork frame and slide. Everything else is top of the line stuff.
It is tight, not as light as a trigger as I have done, but crisp, and no light weight springs, so it will fire when you pull the trigger, and no hammer follow.
The blue is great, high polish, slide fit is O.K. It will out shoot a Kimber target match. I have never spent the money for the real Hi end one, I can't shoot that good anyway, but this will shoot 1 in off a bag at 20yr or so.
But that scratch on the slide from installing the sight should never have left the shop. Don't matter what the gun is ,$100.oo or 3000.oo
 
45C said:
Ya,I think there may have been a time when he did excellent work.
Unfortunately,that time has passed.
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Yes I've seen a chromed HK P7 that he did which was very well done, and the guys from Freedom Venture highly recommended him too so know doubt he has done some great stuff. Would love to give him the benefit of the doubt, but the fact your pistol was sent back to you in that condition without a mention, explanation or partial refund is bad business imo. Makes me wonder if he has an apprentice working with him who just pushed it through.
 
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