The original TRS came from Allan Yoast. It has always been highly accurate and utterly reliable, but the fact that I carry it regularly here in coastal South Carolina and a penchant for two tone 1911's prompted me to send it off to the Shrine of St. Rupert of the Blaster for hard chroming of the bottom end, and Dane's signature cutting and crowning of the barrel.
I have a full house BCP in the works, and Dane being Dane, he decided the two frames should be as close to identical as possible for the sake of grip consistency. So, he high cut the Les Baer frame, installed a new and reshaped grip safety, new thumb safety, and replaced the MSH with a 30 lpi unit from Ed Brown. All this at no additional charge simply because Dane felt it was the right way to do things. His comment was something like, "made a few changes to your gun, hope you like them. If you don't, you can fire me."
Fact is, I shoot the gun now better than I ever did before. Don't know why, pretty much don't care. But I sure as hell trust Dane's judgement now and in fact, I hereby issue him my warrant and appoint him 'Pistolsmith to David Cosby" :lol:
The grips are elephant ivory, selected by Dane according to my preference for lots of grain and complexity of color. Taste in ivory is highly subjective with some people liking pure white, closely grained stuff. That's always looked like white plastic to me, but to each his own. :smile:
The "work clothes" grips are from Mad Dog Labs and were made thinner than standard by Steve Morrison. I highly recommend them, and use them in place of the ivory if I know I'm headed for an intense range session, or if the weather is truly lousy.
Knife is a Mini Pug from Al Polkowski. It's a bad ass blade.
Hope you all enjoyed the pics!
