Custom Hand Flared Magwell. Anyone do this anymore??????

[JTROKS]

Nice! I remember flared magwells and all that. That was back in the days looking and gawking at custom 1911s and the $2K+ sticker price was just too much for my wallet. A lot of those custom jobs are going out due to CNC machining. Most gunsmiths don't like doing hand cut checkering anymore. It's easier to just bolt the piece in, load the program and watch the work of art come alive.

[9mmepiphany]

You're spot on with the lowered ejection port, it's different than most, and just kind of cool looking as well with the electroless nickel. The plating is unlike anything else I've seen, and absolutely durable. I wish they did this finish still like they used to because I would have other guns done if I could find someone to do it.

They do...if it is electroless nickel rather than Hard Chrome that i originally expected.

EN is very easy to do as it is just a chemical process which is done in a tank...I really like CCR for it, but there are plenty of others who'll do it.

[9mmepiphany]

Nice score, Bomb!

Your pics remind me of fond times visiting the old Pachmyr workshop in Los Angeles back in the day! A young man from South Africa named Paul Leibenberg was building Combat Specials in the little workshop that was in the Pachmayr factory. One of his finer works was using handmade mandrels and heat forging to "swage" the mag wells into a flared open position for faster loads than beveling alone. If I remember right, this little addition was around 200 smackers at the time, which was outside my wallet. Of course, I could kick myself now!

When we consider the risks of heating and spreading the mouth of a finished mag well, we can really appreciate that it was an incredibly delicate job, and remains so! I'm not sure which smiths today would take on the challenge! Terry Tussey? Bruce Grey? Alex Hamilton? Doug Turnbull? Hmmmmm...

Paul is still working.

He started his own company named Pistol Dynamics