Yes, those are my guns. Thanks for the compliments.
MikeGoob- Yes, as I said in the post that JohnKSa referenced, that is "just bluing", other than that it's metal prep, polishing, and good steel that create the appearance.
Stainless can be polished to that kind of mirror finish but it doesn't take bluing the same as carbon steel so you have to coat it. Also, it is slightly softer than carbon steel and if it isn't protected it will be more prone to fine scratches. As DA/SA Fan pointed out, Ionbond DLC (or any other brand of Diamond Like Carbon coating) can be applied to stainless. It is about the coating that doesn't have a texture of it's own so the level of polish will be the same after it's coated as before. It's very hard so it will protect against fine scratches but it is very thin and won't stop deep gouges, dings, etc..
Bill DeShivs & 4thPoint - My Colt Compact is a Clark Custom Meltdown gun -
http://clarkcustomguns.com/gun/meltdown/ - it was done shortly after they started offering the package in the late'90s. The melt jobs were a bit more radical then than the ones they're doing now. They're not everybody's cup of tea but Kimber thought enough of the idea to rip it off for their factory "melted" CDP line.
As you can see in this pic, my gun was melted before it was polished.
The full size Colt with the polished flats has had all of the edges broken intentionally, as DanTSX pointed out, it is not the result of a "bad polish job". In addition, the slides were smoothed and rollmarks removed on both guns per my request, because I wanted them that way, again, nothing to do with polishing.
Obviously, neither of you had any idea what you were talking about when you posted your assumptions. If you don't like my guns that's fine, but rest assured, both of those guns are built and look exactly as I ordered them.
BTW, this is a picture of the slide from a Colt Commander that I'm having built for my son. As you can see, it has a mild melt to the edges, that is how I ordered it to be done, the rest of the gun is being done the same way. I also chose to keep the rollmarks on this one and go with a fine matte finish. That's the cool think about
custom guns, they build what you ask for. If I'd wanted sharp corners and crisp lines on any of them I'd have kept them stock.