Well if you don't I'll recap:



Soon after my exwife and I split, I bought this from CDI sales:

It was quite nice and very reasonably priced. Made in 1995, so it's a "transitional": Frame with the squared trigger guard, rounded hammer, but no Firing Pin block. Not quite a "B" but not a "classic/A" either. It was unloved and holster worn but it worked just fine. I decided that I would take this unloved thing and it would serve as a metaphor for all of the changes in my life.



I bought a blasting cabinet and a Caswell Electroless Nickel kit and took her apart for a detail cleaning:





And there it sat. Tried to do a sandblast and it didn't work out great. Got my blasting cabinet set up and fell madly in love and got married and work got busy and life just sort of happened at me and this guy languished. Then my beautiful wife, us married not even a year, got cancer. Almost emergency surgery, I've gutted deer with smaller incisions than she had. Terrifying. Her cancer was rare, treatable with surgery, and thank God she should be ok now (with quarterly visits to her new best friend, the oncologist) but I resolved to stop being such a lazyass about things I wanted to do. Life is short, and uncertain.

BAM! Still tons to do. Gotta buy the CGW hammer and adjustable sear, all new springs, and a new drop-free brake (my old brake broke on the way out). Also need to pick up some sights, I'm all ears for recommendations.



I'm very pleased with how it turned out, although I went overboard with the plating and now will likely have some fitting to do on the frame/slide and controls. I'm ok with that, though...better too much than not enough, amirite?