Sidearms & Scatterguns my first beaver tail install

[eli polite]

This is my sons 1911 the guy who had it previously had some pretty shoddy things done to it but the bones of this Springfield are good the slide is nice and tight. most of the gun is stock but he had a beaver tail on there that looked like it was installed with a hammer and a chainsaw the trigger was stock but it looked like he had gone crazy with some stones on the sears so I replaced the actual trigger with an STI and I replaced and fitted the a new Smith & Alexander .220 fitting radius beavertail. Unfortunately I did not take photos of the process. I'm sure most of you are familiar with the process. The radius jig mad it easy as long as you take your time..

I have not blended it all in and polished it yet and I need to polish the contact point on the back of the beaver tail because its not properly disengaging when the trigger is cocked. I'll take care of that tomorrow before I blend every thing... next I will replace all the sprigs and sears. I was thinking that I would be able to buy the proper jigs and stone the sears my self but after seeing what was done to them that is out of the question


next is to fit a new barrel I would like to try to do a bull barrel in it but I need to do a lot more reading and research on that before I attempt it













this is what I took off of it you can see what looks like hammer marks on the inside of it.. those marks are on bothe sides of it and this thing was loose in there. It rattled around in there bad!! now no more rattling around

 

[Saito]

It looks good. Good job. 10-8 makes an armorers block that you can mock up your hammer & sear on to check their engagement.

 

[eli polite]

I finished fitting every thing together..

BEFOR



AFTER



BEFOR



AFTER

 

[camocorvette]

Looks beautiful man! Good job

 

[Unknown]

Nice work, especially good for your first go at it.

 

[eli polite]

thanks!! first time doing this but no where near the first time using tools and doing detailed work.. I was nervous about screwing something up so I just spent extra time on it

 

[FourNineThree]

eli polite,

Very smooth work on that steel! They are some tough angles to get correct and blended, nice.

Be safe,
FourNineThree

 

[Danny25]

Well done!

 

[17874]

Nice job man. I remember my first time. I was nervous when cutting the radius on the frame.

 

[EXTREMEPREJUDICE]

You obviously have an eye for detail, congrats!

 

[eli polite]

After I blended it I hand sanded it down to 4000 grit

 

[mudpig]

Nice attention to detail....no you are ready to try checkering that front strap and mainspring housing!

 

[eli polite]

Yeah that was my thought as well. But first comes fitting a new barrel.

 

[Glock45]

I'm so envious of you all that have the balls to do that on a $1k pistol(replacement value)!! It's truly inspirational! But, Eli Polite - like you said, take the time, don't treat it like it had to be done yesterday. thanks for sharing!

-G45

 

[17874]

I'm so envious of you all that have the balls to do that on a $1k pistol(replacement value)!! It's truly inspirational! But, Eli Polite - like you said, take the time, don't treat it like it had to be done yesterday. thanks for sharing!

-G45

Some of the best advice I ever got relating to working on guns was "take your time removing metal as you can always remove more, but you can't put it back".