So, is it done?
Of course not. A 1911 is never done until the builder/owner has exhausted(a) his entire reserves of patience and (b) the last Federal Reserve Cartoon he owns.
The trigger is a dream, and, even though her uniform is slightly mussed, she is otherwise fit to dissuade your rampaging thug from the notion that well-ripened Americans are easy pickings.
I like that old boy despite his questionable habit of keeping too much cash in the house and letting the neighborhood know about it.
Here at Camp Jiggleview, of which I am Commandant, the miscreants would find no more than the jug where I toss change and dollar bills. The rest of the on-hand wealth consists mostly of some new wool socks against the coming polar vortex and said Commandant's new Coltish Commanderoid.
She is about 80 per cent complete, behind schedule due to a devil of a time swapping around hammers, sears, and disconnectors. The Windom loophole Saturday turned up a large handful of 1911 internals, including the ignition parts that finally gave me the letoff I wanted. She's still unfired but feeds hard ball fine and will go bang. (If you can't get out in the country right away you can chamber a primed empty and squeeze her off, even though that is probably illegal here in Smugleye-on-Lake. But what the Hell. Molon labe.)
There's a new beaver tail grip safety on the bench, but it defied my "drop-in" hopes, and I've had all of the "minor fitting" I care for at the moment. It will be added in due course, probably as I get her ready for for the final finish.
(Geekout: AMT aluminum frame; Caspian slide, straight GI sights. The hammer is a Model 80 piece, lacking a half-cock hook. There's a ledge in its place to hold half-cock, but a trigger pull drops it. I can live with that, but I'd rather -- and will -- have the JMB original. The grips are Pachmayr wrappers, and yes I know how utterly trailer-park that makes me. Don't care. I've always liked the way they feel, and in the immortal words of Charles Parlier, "This is muh working' pistol, not muh lookin' pistol." )
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*There are others keeping my fingers busy with chores other than typing, but here's no plan to retire the TMR until authoritarian forces are entirely routed, and I don't expect that to happen for a very long time, months anyway, perhaps even a few years.
I like that old boy despite his questionable habit of keeping too much cash in the house and letting the neighborhood know about it.
Here at Camp Jiggleview, of which I am Commandant, the miscreants would find no more than the jug where I toss change and dollar bills. The rest of the on-hand wealth consists mostly of some new wool socks against the coming polar vortex and said Commandant's new Coltish Commanderoid.
She is about 80 per cent complete, behind schedule due to a devil of a time swapping around hammers, sears, and disconnectors. The Windom loophole Saturday turned up a large handful of 1911 internals, including the ignition parts that finally gave me the letoff I wanted. She's still unfired but feeds hard ball fine and will go bang. (If you can't get out in the country right away you can chamber a primed empty and squeeze her off, even though that is probably illegal here in Smugleye-on-Lake. But what the Hell. Molon labe.)
There's a new beaver tail grip safety on the bench, but it defied my "drop-in" hopes, and I've had all of the "minor fitting" I care for at the moment. It will be added in due course, probably as I get her ready for for the final finish.
(Geekout: AMT aluminum frame; Caspian slide, straight GI sights. The hammer is a Model 80 piece, lacking a half-cock hook. There's a ledge in its place to hold half-cock, but a trigger pull drops it. I can live with that, but I'd rather -- and will -- have the JMB original. The grips are Pachmayr wrappers, and yes I know how utterly trailer-park that makes me. Don't care. I've always liked the way they feel, and in the immortal words of Charles Parlier, "This is muh working' pistol, not muh lookin' pistol." )
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*There are others keeping my fingers busy with chores other than typing, but here's no plan to retire the TMR until authoritarian forces are entirely routed, and I don't expect that to happen for a very long time, months anyway, perhaps even a few years.
