Come Into Bawanna's Famous Grip Emporium

[leftysixty]

After careful deliberation, I threw caution to the wind and did a bobtail job on my beloved Remington R1 last night.
It was an off day, I was tired, I knew the timing was totally wrong but me and patience plus the fact that the wife forgot to bring home fishing lures to assemble gave me the night in the man cave.
It was with bobtail or Dancing With the Stars and those dance outfits on the ladies just drive me nuts ya know.

Some would say I've ruined the gun for resale but it's mine and I don't ever figure in resale. I'm a buyer not a seller ya know.

Anyhow, all I got at the moment is a cell phone pic. New phone I'm too stupid to know how to work but I think I got it done. Technology and me don't belong in the same sentence.
Anyhow, here she be.



I believe I sweated more doing this one than I did on the first one. Bluing turned out semi ok, I still have a little reshaping to do to make it 100 percent but the scary part is done. I spent more time putting the gun back together than I did on the hack saw.
For some reason the 3 fingered spring on this thing is just a pig to put in. Took me at least 6 attempts and over an hour to get it right. No problem with the others, I get it eventually. Last time I thought I had it figured out but alas it was not the case.

Old Lincoln, kind of give me a better description of this thumb safety your talking about.
Just on top or not as pronounced or what?

Well Done I'd say, and I'm picky as hell!

[b4uqzme]

Colonel, everything about that gun is drop dead gorgeous: the thumb safety, the hammer, the short beavertail, your bob-job...and of course those grips!!! Color me extremely jealous.

[Bawanna]

Greg was mighty helpful on that hammer install. I really like it.

Thanks for kind words.

I'm gonna lock that Ruger up and forget the combo so I don't end up hacksawing a corner of it. I'm two for two, I know I'll screw up the third one for sure.

[DeaconKC]

Give yourself credit, that is an excellent job. Well done!

[Alfonse]

It really looks great. Pics like that make me want another 1911.

[yqtszhj]

Awesome job Col. B. That looks great! You increased the value in my book.

I agree with ghat statement. Its now a custom gun.

[yqtszhj]

Someone needs to fill in for jocko so here it goes...:

"Lokks ok for a foking hundrd year old POS gun that shoots bullets so slo even ole jocko could get out of ther way. you need to get a real gun in 9mm."

I miss the old joker. someone go pull him out of hooters and tell him to get back on line. Wasn't he down near CJB or Wynn somewhere?

[gb6491]

Well done Bawanna...very well done indeed.
Regards,
Greg

[xsailer]

Someone needs to fill in for jocko so here it goes...:

"Lokks ok for a foking hundrd year old POS gun that shoots bullets so slo even ole jocko could get out of ther way. you need to get a real gun in 9mm."

I miss the old joker. someone go pull him out of hooters and tell him to get back on line. Wasn't he down near CJB or Wynn somewhere?

That's not bad but something still lacking in the attitude.

[Bawanna]

I took this Remington apart again this morning and did a little more fine tuning. When I did it originally I left the frame just a couple nano's high and one could feel the edge running your finger over it. One of the detectives at work has a bionic eye and sensitive hands and he picked up on it right away so today I fixed it.

I also think at long last I figured out how to put the main spring in on this thing without taking 6 attempts and a bajillion cuss jocko words.

Of course had to touch up the bluing again after more filing. I think we're ready for rotation now.

A couple more pics.



My afternoon mission now is to whittle on some SP101 grips for those that was interested when I got my Surveyors mixed up. We'll see how it goes.

[DeaconKC]

That is one handsome warhorse!

[Bawanna]

Started on some SP101 grip inserts today. Kind of tricky little buggers with not a lot to hang onto when filing and shaping and so forth but making progress.

The colorful ones are some sort of plastic, I think it was Armybrat sent me along with a bunch of mesquite and other wood.

Been anxious to play with it, it's like a box of chocolate, ya don't know what your gonna get until you get inside.

Right pretty stuff.

[Big Sexy]

Hey, Bawanna... I'm a fairly new member here, and I just now stumbled on this thread. You do very nice work, sir!

I've been on a custom grip kick lately with my own pistols, and have recently been trying my hand at making my own wood grips. So, from what I've learned from this experience, I really respect the work you've done!

[Bawanna]

Welcome to the fold. You look at a grip a little differently when you whittled it out yourself, that's for sure.

[Southerngunner]

Started on some SP101 grip inserts today. Kind of tricky little buggers with not a lot to hang onto when filing and shaping and so forth but making progress.

The colorful ones are some sort of plastic, I think it was Armybrat sent me along with a bunch of mesquite and other wood.

Been anxious to play with it, it's like a box of chocolate, ya don't know what your gonna get until you get inside.

Right pretty stuff.

Hey Bawana, That there Mica Pearl looks right familiar I can't wait to see what you do with it.