[OD*]

Looks good, Bruce.

 

[CLASS3NH]

Looks good so far!............How bout breaking the edges a bit more? and doing more of the Melt-down treatment? say around the edges of the slide area, near the bottom of the frame?

 

[P95Carry]

How bout breaking the edges a bit more

Steady Bob - subtle is good - ''less is more''. :wink:

Seriously - I think if Bruce has gotten his real sharp stuff smoothed, and it holsters way better then - that is good. :smile:

 

[ArmyCop]

I was thinking about getting a small file out and attempting to do some edge breaking on my XSE. The edges on that baby are sharp enough to shave with, that and its tearing the holster I got from Chris all to shreds. Here is what I am starting out with, hopefully I won't butcher it to bad.

I had a Colt Defender with same problem. Friend of mine said I could get it "Dehorned" which I found out meant to smooth out the sharp edges like your gonna do. Good luck.

 

[Bruces45]

I don't wanna get too crazy with it Bob, Like Chris said earlier, metal gone is metal gone for good. I am happy with the way it turned out, all the sharp edges are gone and I don't get chunks of leather when I unholster and re holster it anymore.

 

[OD*]

Great minds and all of that Bruce, :tongue:
I had forgotten I posted this to you;

January 6th, 2006, 04:03 PM #6
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Looks good Bruce
Another nice thing about STS is you can preform your own bevel job without having to refinish.
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[Bruces45]

Great minds and all of that Bruce, :tongue:
I had forgotten I posted this to you;

January 6th, 2006, 04:03 PM #6
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Looks good Bruce
Another nice thing about STS is you can preform your own bevel job without having to refinish.
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You lost me somewhere OD.
Is there any rerason that you didn't do as much rounding on the one you did as I did on mine? I would go a little and try it in the holster, then go some more till It felt like it went in and out smoothly.

 

[OD*]

You lost me somewhere OD.

Sorry for the confusion Bruce, I was referring to posting to you about doing a de-horn job, shortly before you started your thread. :redface:

Is there any rerason that you didn't do as much rounding on the one you did as I did on mine?

Not really sir, I just prefer the "melted" style instead of the beveled style. I don't really do mine for holstering as such, but for manipulation (clearance drills etc.), the new CNC'ed Colt's can really slice your hand practicing a stove-pipe clearance drill. :aargh4:

 

[CLASS3NH]

I don't wanna get too crazy with it Bob, Like Chris said earlier, metal gone is metal gone for good. I am happy with the way it turned out, all the sharp edges are gone and I don't get chunks of leather when I unholster and re holster it anymore.

I understand you completly Bruce and Chris...........I just meant a little lore...........like anout a .020-.030 radius on the edges.........that's really not very much..........justt enuf to smooth and round the edges on the side etc...:smile:

 

[dimmak]

Very nice Bruce, looks great!

 

[duckhunter]

OK Bruce, you've inspired me. If you have the beans to do your whole 1911, I'm going to go hit the slide release on my K9. Everything else is fairly smooth, but I could use that sucker to slice tomatoes (and my thumb). Nice job on the Commander.

 

[Bruces45]

OK Bruce, you've inspired me. If you have the beans to do your whole 1911, I'm going to go hit the slide release on my K9. Everything else is fairly smooth, but I could use that sucker to slice tomatoes (and my thumb). Nice job on the Commander.

Make sure you take some pics so we can all see how good it turns out. :yup:

 

[Bruces45]

Lots of new members now and maybe some would want to read this, and look at the pics.

 

[Rock and Glock]

Beautiful job - I'm starting to drift over to the dar.......Whoops!

That dang Glock....can't do a darn thing to it, and it's always gonna be UGLY!

Actually...it looks great, and this and all the other 1911 posts are giving me some serious gun lust.....