Here’s a pretty neat pair that Ted and I recently finished up...



Ted and I generally work individually on one gun at a time but when these guns came up the bug hit us and we both jumped right in. And if you ask me there’s not much cooler than a classic Colt Government Model with an equal LW Commander for a reload.

The gentleman who owns these guns had a clear vision of what he wanted for them when he dropped them off at the shop some time last year. Retro styled shooters was the order of the day and he gave Ted and I free reign to change what needed changing and fix what needed fixing in order to insure these guns would shoot for a long time to come. His major request was to keep the guns looking somewhat original and overall classic but to make them matching shooters.

In addition to keeping the Commercial thumb safeties and stock grip safeties we retained the spur hammers on both and shortened them up proportionally to each gun. Most of the internals such as sears, disconnects, triggers, ejectors, extractors, firing pin stops, plunger tubes, slide stops, etc. were tossed for better quality parts and we installed Kart barrels and EGW bushings along with Retro rear sights with dovetailed fronts with gold line inserts. We gave them serrated front straps to match the newly blended serrated mainspring housings and rounded out the bottom end with hand-beveled mag wells. Last thing was to border the slides and polish them out... enjoy the pictures!

Quoted: Is that an indent running along the top line of the slide.  Holy mans that is cool.  But what is the point?  I guess just an accent, eh?  Wow, those are beautiful.

Thanks for the kind words... the "indent" is a machined border to accent and separate the transition between the slide's "flat" and "round". It is often referred to as a "French border" but we don't use that first word around the shop anymore.

As always I appreciate the feedback fella's...

Quoted: Who did the anodizing on the Commander?  It's as close a match as I've ever seen.

The anodizer is a shop we've been using for years...they generally do allot of "industrial" most of the time.  PM sent...

BTW - Good to see ya' here again...