Springfield 1911

[Leland Davis]

I asked awhile back about cutting a stainless Springfield 1911 and was told they were hard but engravable so I took it on here is the right side. The stainless cut nice it was consistent all the way thru. Let me know what I did wrong.
Thanks,Leland

 

[papart1]

Flintdoubles, it looks pretty neat and tidee with good form and good shapes. Regards, Rob

 

[monk]

fwiw-- a beautiful job to my eye. i don't like the border below the ejection port. i don't see this harmonizing with the scroll style. just mpo.

 

[Leland Davis]

Thanks for the comments monk I agree about the border did you ever do things you wish you hadn't thats 1.

 

[gcleaker]

I will have to agree with monk about the boarder, and yes, I have engraved things that I regretted later to, the real challenge is to come up with a fix for it. It takes guts to put yourself and your work online here. I like your concept it flows quite nicely, and it is a really great job all in all. Thanks for reporting how the slide cuts.
Skill comes from diligence.

 

[John B.]

Flintdoubles, if you don't like the border below the ejection port it could easily be re-cut into a running leaf or bat wing border. Easy on a stainless slide as no re-blue required.

 

[Leland Davis]

Thanks, for the comments, I am going to put a running leaf in the border just have not had time to get back to it. I spent my time trying to make rounder scrolls and the border just didn't get thought out good enough,the running leaf will help.
Thanks again,Leland

 

[monk]

Thanks for the comments monk I agree about the border did you ever do things you wish you hadn't thats 1.

so many, i've lost track !

 

[Dave London]

Nice work Leland, I recently worked on one, engraving was not too bad but the gold border was a PITA. Undercut was constant resharpening about every 1/2 inch using a dubed knife graver.

 

[Leland Davis]

Thanks Dave, no gold on this one sounds like I should happy about that. I had done a pair of stainless Ruger vaquero this spring and found them to be very inconsistent hard and soft spots the hard spots were very hard but manageable. The Springfield I thought cut consistent and not that hard sure I had to sharpen more but not a lot more.I did notice when stippling the background it would roll the point quickly had to resharpen a lot.