Dave Sample
Moderator
Thanks for the inout Gary. I hope you know that I am not bothered by these comments but I like to feel free to re butt them. If this is not good form, please let me know. If you have been to the schools you are more familiar than I am so I know your comments are valid.
Many years ago I tried to get a student at the Colorado School of Trades to silver soder a front sight on a slide. He and the Instructors tried four times and could not get it to stick. I sent in to Ken Hallock and had it back in a week and it has been on that gun ever since.
I lived in Trinidad for a couple of years and know many of the people that used to teach and work there. We saw what they produced at the Shot Show and I can't believe that they were proud of them. They were very badly done in my opinion. I realize that I am a nit picker when it comes to 1911 work. It is Gypsy Curse. I did not have a torch then and shortly after we started dove tailing the difficult ones in. It is far better than applying heat to the slide where it needs to be hard.
Many years ago I tried to get a student at the Colorado School of Trades to silver soder a front sight on a slide. He and the Instructors tried four times and could not get it to stick. I sent in to Ken Hallock and had it back in a week and it has been on that gun ever since.
I lived in Trinidad for a couple of years and know many of the people that used to teach and work there. We saw what they produced at the Shot Show and I can't believe that they were proud of them. They were very badly done in my opinion. I realize that I am a nit picker when it comes to 1911 work. It is Gypsy Curse. I did not have a torch then and shortly after we started dove tailing the difficult ones in. It is far better than applying heat to the slide where it needs to be hard.