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Been a little busy but I thought you guys might like a little photo essay :grin:
It doesn't seem like a work when you like what you are doing!
This Colt is a first year production stainless with some very mild enhancement 'ala Col. Cooper in style.
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Then my customer made the mistake :roll: of falling into the "pistolsmith forum trap" and saw this pistol I posted from a good friend and customer's Armand Swenson's pistol, circa 1969/70.
Sorry Dude!
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While not a copy, the rework was influenced by Swenson and Heinie's early work. Nothing to be ashamed of there!
As you can see I like a simple gun. I am lucky enough to have customers who agree with my ideas.
"Have you ever thought...about whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his calculations and cumputations, all the nights spent over working droughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?"
Antoine de Sainte Exupery, WIND, SAND & STARS
That has been my design thought process since 1973 when I first read it...10 years before I built my first 1911.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Dane Burns on 2001-09-08 03:01 ]</font>
It doesn't seem like a work when you like what you are doing!
This Colt is a first year production stainless with some very mild enhancement 'ala Col. Cooper in style.
Then my customer made the mistake :roll: of falling into the "pistolsmith forum trap" and saw this pistol I posted from a good friend and customer's Armand Swenson's pistol, circa 1969/70.
Sorry Dude!
While not a copy, the rework was influenced by Swenson and Heinie's early work. Nothing to be ashamed of there!
As you can see I like a simple gun. I am lucky enough to have customers who agree with my ideas.
"Have you ever thought...about whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his calculations and cumputations, all the nights spent over working droughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?"
Antoine de Sainte Exupery, WIND, SAND & STARS
That has been my design thought process since 1973 when I first read it...10 years before I built my first 1911.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Dane Burns on 2001-09-08 03:01 ]</font>
