This is my first post, I finally have my 1911 where I want it and need to show someone.
Kimber Custom II
This is my first post, I finally have my 1911 where I want it and need to show someone.
Kimber Custom II
Front strap checkered by Kimber
Kimber Premium 2-Hole Trigger
Kimber Tactical Bump Grip Safety
Kimber Ambi Safety
Kimber Stainless Barrel Bushing
S&A 1-Piece Mag Guide
Wilson Combat Guide Rod
Wilson Combat Checkered Recoil Plug
Ed Brown Magazine Release Spring
VZ Slant Grips - Black Magwell no Ambi Cut
(Waiting on my VZ Stainless Flathead Screws)
Then I adjusted the trigger and rubbed all the stainless parts down with Norwex Cleaning Paste to improve the finish and make everything as uniform as I could and it turned out really well. All the Kimber parts were dull when they arrived, now they look better than the originals. The Wilson Combat Recoil Plug is the shiniest part on the gun so I didn't touch it. The S&A Magwell was pretty good out of the bag but I still rubbed it down with the paste and used a toothbrush on the checkering and it came out really well. Now the checkering pops and all the parts have a bright satin finish.
Here it is with only the checkering done.
Last edited by Matt_J; 05-22-2020 at 03:20 AM.
This is a Kimber Ultra Refined Carry Pistol (RCP) II.
Crimson Trace Laser Grips.
Gutter Punk Sights.
All sharp edges on slide stop and thumb safety smoothed and dehorned. Edges on left side of the hammer beveled and smoothed.
Black cerakoted slide
3" ramped barrel
7 round Officer's alloy frame with round butt.
This one resides in a Don Hume leather pocket holster.
It's as smooth as a babies bottom.
GOD BLESSED TEXAS
Combat Commander manufactured in 1975. Purchased by my father the same year at a little hole-in-the-wall gunstore in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I was seven that year and thought it was great that dad had bought the same gun that John Wayne used. I didn't understand that Wayne would have used a 1911A1 in his WWII movies and it wouldn't have mattered. Dad sent it to Kings in 78 and had that hard chrome finish applied. He held onto it because it was my favorite. One of the first pistols he taught me how to shoot as well. Those are the original factory grips. I inherited in in 2016. It will stay with me.
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