[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Hard Chrome: Matte or Brushed

Posted: 6/1/2005 9:13:10 AM EDT

Getting ready to send a 1911 to Virgil Tripp for Cobra Chrome. Trying to decide if I want it all matte or polished flats on slide and frame with matte rounds. Leaning towards the latter. What do you think?

Posted: 6/1/2005 9:22:06 AM EDT

[#1]

matte.

Posted: 6/1/2005 9:41:10 AM EDT

[#2]

Polish the slide flats, the rest brushed. That tends to look good from what I have seen.

Posted: 6/1/2005 10:04:36 AM EDT

[#3]

Here's my all matte hardchromed Dan Wesson 1911 from Tripp:

Posted: 6/1/2005 10:14:11 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Here's my all matte hardchromed Dan Wesson 1911 from Tripp:

photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/Attachments/DownloadAttach.asp?iImageUnq=37041

Thanks, Wave. That's beautiful!

Posted: 6/1/2005 11:19:54 AM EDT

[#5]

Satin.

Posted: 6/1/2005 1:06:13 PM EDT

[#6]

Matte.

Posted: 6/1/2005 8:16:17 PM EDT

[#7]

If this is for looks, get the matte rounds, polished or brushed flats. It looks awesome.

Wave, nice spalted maple! I intend to start making custom 1911 grips from high end wood. If they turn out as nice as I expect, I'll post pics on this forum.

Posted: 6/5/2005 1:02:36 PM EDT

[#8]

Here is one I used to have that I had chromed thru Springfield. Had the flats of the slide polished and all else matte.

http://img10.echo.cx/img10/9461/tessfinalcopy9jk.jpg

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