This pistol makes the Baby Jesus cry.
That is just uglier than the back side of a mud fence on a rainy day.
(...and note that I like case-coloring, but if you're going to case color the whole damn gun, then the small parts should be nitre-blued or rust-blued, not polished and engine-turned. That's like wearing plaid and polka-dots at the same time. *shudder*)
It might look alot nicer in person. For instance, I thought engraving on pistols was crazy until I held a Browning HP Renaissance in my hand. They don't photograph well but it's a whole different thing in person. And this one's a 1911, how can you go wrong with that?
ReplyDeleteEngraving is fine, but I have seen enough engine-turning and case coloring to be able to envision that one in 3D pretty easily. I imagine I'll wind up drinking to make the vision go away, too.
ReplyDelete"And this one's a 1911, how can you go wrong with that?"
It looks like someone found a way. :o
I'm struggling to finish the TSRA calendar, and looking at that photo re-calibrates my gun esthetic scale.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with plaid or polka dots. It's the plaid AND polka dots effect this thing has going on that makes it butt ugly, and not ugly in a any sort of tough-guy, face like a 10 pound hammer way......
ReplyDeleteI kinda like the case-coloring .... but as others have said, everthing else clashes with it. I'm thinking lose the jewelling, put on some walnut (with a little cream colored sapwood mottling in it)or tigerwood grips...
I agree, case harding looks good for the most part but the grips and everything else doesn't work. Change the grips with a deep rich wood and blue all the parts that are not hardened.
ReplyDeleteThe case coloring is beautiful, and I could live with jeweling the barrel where it shows through the ejection port. I will agree about the small parts, and those grips are pimptastic.
ReplyDeleteStill, it wouldn't take much to make a barbeque gun out of it.
Frankly, I'm just impressed that he managed to engine turn the grip safety and the loop hammer. That's just OCD levels of fiddly.
ReplyDeleteA fine example of how sometimes a bunch of good ideas and technique just don't work when put together. It's like some sort of graduation exercise, where the point was to show off mastery of every technique covered by the curriculum.
ReplyDeleteThe guy just got too excited by all the possibilities.
I think Gen. Patton had to explain the difference between ivory grips and pearl grips on pistols. Seems he tought pearl grips belonged on a the pistols of a pimp.
ReplyDeleteThis might be an excellent pimp pistol, all it needs is some of those little pave diamonds on the top rib.
Like I told Xavier, I'd be willing to bet that the so called "gunsmith" that made that can be seen hanging on the street corners in the 'hood and I gaurandamtee he's got a gold grill on his teef.
ReplyDeleteThat is probably one of the ugliest POS I've ever seen. He's probably got several thousand dollars worth of labor in that and I bet he can't sell it for more than say $500 to $600 unless of course he sells it to a Tweeker.
Tweeker: A person that was once human but has smoked so much crack and meth that they are no longer a member of the human race.
Joe
Now that is a firearms abortion. It's the song Trashy Women by Confederate Railroad, with lyrics changed for the 1911.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how it shoots sideways?
It looks like something Taurus would market...to men in white leisure suits and wide-brimmed hats.
ReplyDeleteYou know, anyone who'd do that to a 1911 ought to have his ass removed.
ReplyDeleteThe grips are the worst problem, but I agree about the engine turning, too.
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