Ruger Commander 1911 for ccw?

[Nickb45]

That's more than a little handy. You do professional grade work. Did you ever do work for others? Like bobbing or custom grips, etc?

What did you use to het the roll marks off the slide?

Thank you.
I do grips for people if they sell. All of the grips posted besides the spalted maple and the darker set of black&white are still available.
I have not done any work on other peoples pistols, I will probably be bobbing a buddies pistol and at least drilling the hole for another friend sometime soon. I milled the roll marks off of the slide, I think it was about .006 per side, then bead blasted the slide and used a granite block with sand paper taped to it to polish/grain the sides.

It's pretty easy stuff for me considering my trade and the tools/equipment I have access to. I work on a lot more expensive parts with a lot tighter tolerances everyday... That still doesn't stop the nervousness before I start cutting on a pistol.

 

[420Stainless]

I think Commanders are very nice carry guns if you can conceal it well. Around here with the humidity I generally will only carry mine on cold winter days when I can wear a long cover shirt or coat in comfort. We've been able to get close again over the last month. I don't have experience with the Ruger version, but have to believe it would be a fine choice.

 

[gym]

In my youth I worked fo my dad in a Defense plant, we were Govt. Subcontractors. It was a small "in comparison" to the "republics and Grumman's", of the day, 1,500 people in 3 buildings. But had access to the Machine shop, "which I wish I had today", I could use any of the bending cutting anodizing, etc. machines which I no longer have access to. And if I didn't know how to do something the master machinists there could build anything from scratch, and did. One guy used to cut a dime around the profile of the head and hand them out. I used to make my own keys, for anything from scratch, they had magic hands and enjoyed teaching their craft, many were of German heritage, they were real craftsman.
I sure wish I had the use of a few of those machines today.
You are making me want to Bob a commander, from your pistol. I just don't have the tools anymore, maybe if you decide to start doing it as a side line you would let us know. I assume you also did the checkering on the front strap? It came out really nice.

 

[Nickb45]

In my youth I worked fo my dad in a Defense plant, we were Govt. Subcontractors. It was a small "in comparison" to the "republics and Grumman's", of the day, 1,500 people in 3 buildings. But had access to the Machine shop, "which I wish I had today", I could use any of the bending cutting anodizing, etc. machines which I no longer have access to. And if I didn't know how to do something the master machinists there could build anything from scratch, and did. One guy used to cut a dime around the profile of the head and hand them out. I used to make my own keys, for anything from scratch, they had magic hands and enjoyed teaching their craft, many were of German heritage, they were real craftsman.

I sure wish I had the use of a few of those machines today.

You are making me want to Bob a commander, from your pistol. I just don't have the tools anymore, maybe if you decide to start doing it as a side line you would let us know. I assume you also did the checkering on the front strap? It came out really nice.

I need to have the front strap done... That's an $8 piece of thin metal from wilson combat on the front strap.

I haven't decided to spend the $300 on the fixtures and files to checker front straps.