Sloppiest 1911 slide ever? Need a pro pistolsmith...maybe a miracle worker?

[Munkey1973]

if the goal is a display of work... don't have it assembled. easy to pass a slide over to a customer to view the work.... a bit more complicated handing over a functioning firearm.

Also, you don't get to display a firearm easily.. check with your local rules.

I would suggest getting a bunch of parts which can be marked and show off your work.... minimize the frames and actions.

YMMV

Jerry

Hey Jerry... I see what you're saying and your opinion is always valued by me. Agreed, it would be easier to attend shows (trade/art shows) outside of gun shows with bits and pieces of gun parts.
I have tonnes of non-gun related displays already for those kinds of shows.

But someday (within the next 5 or so years) as my skills are perfected and I retire from accounting and do engraving full time, I think I'd generate more interest in my art by displaying the entire gun.

The Dominion Arms 1911 will be a full gun engrave (slide, frame, steel grips, all the furniture...even the barrel potentially)

Image going to a gun show and just seeing only the 1911 grips, or just a lower receiver, or just a NF sunshade?

... nah man, its got to be the entire subject of art.
After all, this is why clothing stores have mannequins.

 

[fightinghamster]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

I spoke with the one of the good folks at Dlask today, and basically said (paraphrasing here) "since you have a Dominion Arms and you say that you're a reasonably handy guy, then you should slowly try to work the rails yourself."

He said that he would gladly take my money, but that I'd almost certainly end up paying more in gunsmithing than what I paid for the on gun itself.

And yeah, he told he told me his shop rate, anything more than 2.5 hours would be worth more than the cost of the gun.

So..... I guess that I will look around for scrap steel that is approximately 0.111 to 0.112 thick (or spend $60 USD bucks at Brownells and order a 1911 slide fitting bar).

And if I "F it up" .. no big deal, I just want to cosmetically ensure that the frame will not rub against the front of the slide....it will be a display gun after all.

As for the grip screw bushings... I might try to deal with on my own too down the road.

If you do go ahead and make your own tool for a fitting bar you mind posting it here? I’m in the same boat as you with my norinco

 

[jparent]

I wouldn't fix it. You can "air rack" like all the cool kids on yootoob