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Update: (not that anyone cares, but I'm excited.) The transfer is initiated, just waiting on it to go through. Any way I can expedite the process?
 
In a business transfer you can actually call the CFO office and put some pressure on them to approve it quickly. Often, if your nice, they can do it in a day. In a private transfer they wont usually do anything. I had a buddy who bought a new gun at a store get the transfer approved in an hour and took the gun home with him.
 
pavmentsurfer said:
In a business transfer you can actually call the CFO office and put some pressure on them to approve it quickly. Often, if your nice, they can do it in a day. In a private transfer they wont usually do anything. I had a buddy who bought a new gun at a store get the transfer approved in an hour and took the gun home with him.
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I thought about that today, so I went online and found two numbers for the BC CFO. One was a fax number and the other was out of service. Made me think the CFO is hiding from me. Anybody have the number? Thanks.
 
Does anybody know when these pistols were produced? Are they newly made, or 10-15 years old and have been stored?
 
So after returning my Can Am 1911A1 back to stock, I decided to get some wood grips for it to kind of finish off the classic look. Now, I know this is nowhere near original, but I found these off EE and I'm pretty happy with them. They came on some Springfielf Armoury 1911s for a while (grips no longer listed on their website), not exactly sure which models, but they sure looked good. These grips also came on the Sig 1911 .22lr (essentially the GSG 1911 .22lr). Anyway, not a bad looking grip in my opinion, now I just have to parkerize the thing.

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Apologies for the craptacular photos, I just can't seem to get the right lighting at my place.
 
pavmentsurfer;8984720.......the arms-coat made the biggest difference.[/QUOTE said:
Decent job Pavementsurfer. We should get the arma-coat boys to comment on your workmanship. Maybe they'll want a Minden outpost, lol.

My main question is the "pebbled" look as opposed to a glass smooth coating. Part of me actually likes it, like the sandblasted stainless look as opposed to smooth stainless. Anyway, I get that kind of finish on other painting projects (not guns) when the paint is too thick or the sprayer is held too far away from the piece so (as far as I can tell) the atomized particles start to "gel" before hitting the piece so they do not smoothly flow into one another on the piece. I think a previous post asked what you used for a sprayer but don't recall seeing the answer.

Have you shot it post-DIY coating, doesn't look like it yet? Are there any areas that you think will incur rubbing of slide, etc?

There are plenty of us thinking about this route so your "pioneering" is good info for us. If you were do it again (we all know you will), what would you do differently? My ears are open.
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I ordered mine on a Tuesday, it was shipped out on the Friday, I picked it up from Canpar the following Monday, total turnaround from order to pistol in my hand - 6 days......4 days if you count business days only.
 
Received mine in June. Put some grips and extended thumb safety on it. Only 200 rounds shot so far and the gun itself has been flawless. The mags in the other hand destroy the brass of the last round somehow. Now that i use different mags the problem apear to be solved.

 


Finally got around to having my wife's gun finished. Prison pink by Cerakote done by Synergy Coatings near Edmonton with pink Hogue grips
 
Her interested in shooting means I get to buy more guns. Had to make one pink for her though, sometimes you have to make sacrifices.

Just think of the embarrassment of being shot by a pink gun.
 
canthitathing said:
Decent job Pavementsurfer. We should get the arma-coat boys to comment on your workmanship. Maybe they'll want a Minden outpost, lol.

My main question is the "pebbled" look as opposed to a glass smooth coating. Part of me actually likes it, like the sandblasted stainless look as opposed to smooth stainless. Anyway, I get that kind of finish on other painting projects (not guns) when the paint is too thick or the sprayer is held too far away from the piece so (as far as I can tell) the atomized particles start to "gel" before hitting the piece so they do not smoothly flow into one another on the piece. I think a previous post asked what you used for a sprayer but don't recall seeing the answer.

Have you shot it post-DIY coating, doesn't look like it yet? Are there any areas that you think will incur rubbing of slide, etc?

There are plenty of us thinking about this route so your "pioneering" is good info for us. If you were do it again (we all know you will), what would you do differently? My ears are open.
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Thanks for the compliment. I wanted a matte finish so I intentionally sprayed farther from the parts and mixed at 10:1 ratio as per the instructions. I would have preferred a bit smoother "matte" finish so next time I think id use some thinner maybe.
I used the shake and spray kit with the prevail aerosol sprayer. So, when you factor that in, the results seem even better IMO.

I havent shot it yet. Ive cycled it about a thousand times and so far the only area of wear is right at the front corner where the frame/slide meet. Ive looked at my SR1911 and it has wear in this area as well and its only visible when the slide is removed. Im assuming the brass will have some effect on the ejection port as well, at least. But until I can put 3-400 rounds through it I cant comment for sure.

If I were to do it again (and I intend to on other projects) id figure out a way to make a more even matte finish with less shine. Other than that, im totally happy with how it came out.

My next project is going to my Kriss Vector. Ive got some custom parts to coat and ill be coating part of the plastic lower as well... we'll see how that turns out.
 
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