Sharps40
Price, it's all about the price
Been at this gunsmithing thing for about 35 years now.....still learning. But, I finally did it, learned how to handle a file half-azz gooder and lately, after a year off from doing any customizing of anything, its good to see I ain't forgetted how to solder......low and slow with the heat and the solder flows and the blue don't boil......
So....Late 1960s Hammerli SAA steel ejector rod housing shortened about 3/16 at the back end and fitted to a new stainless Blackhawk that got its 5 1/2 inch barrel shortened to just short enough to use the back half of the original sight ramp for a dovetail sight......then added a brass wedding band to the ejector rod housing, kinda a signature for me......all that soldering and file work to get it 95% fitted up to the gun and I didn't scratch the bluing!!!!! or burn it neither. Happy joy. Next to get the mortise on the side of the frame, the wedding band and the ejector rod housing all blended into one smooth and seamless line from back to front.
Then, feeling confident and energetic after a 12 month hiatus, I took all that extra metal off the top strap, shaped in a slight contour to make it appear thinner and rounder (blackhawks are so dayum blocky looking) and Holy of Holy's ..... this Blackhawk actually has a steel rear sight!!!!
First one I ever seen in steel, so, to the stones, its hard hard steel too, files skitter right off it, but knocked off all the sharpe corners and edges since the rear sight don't have them big steel wings on it no more......
and, way down on the front end, I ain't ready to show it yet but that massive turd of a front ramp is shortened, lowered, dovetailed, rounded and smoothed and blended into the barrel and actually looks real nice no bigger than the installed sight is long.
Oh boy, and those grip panels, yummy!
Oh, yeah, shortened the cylinder pin a bit so it can actually be removed without taking off the ejector rod housing and then made the grasping grooves wide enough, deep enough and sharp edged enough so's one can actually pull the durn pin out without having to get plyers cause yer fingers are too darn big for the crowded spot the pin head is in......
but.....Shoots good too......45 caliber.....
So....Late 1960s Hammerli SAA steel ejector rod housing shortened about 3/16 at the back end and fitted to a new stainless Blackhawk that got its 5 1/2 inch barrel shortened to just short enough to use the back half of the original sight ramp for a dovetail sight......then added a brass wedding band to the ejector rod housing, kinda a signature for me......all that soldering and file work to get it 95% fitted up to the gun and I didn't scratch the bluing!!!!! or burn it neither. Happy joy. Next to get the mortise on the side of the frame, the wedding band and the ejector rod housing all blended into one smooth and seamless line from back to front.
Then, feeling confident and energetic after a 12 month hiatus, I took all that extra metal off the top strap, shaped in a slight contour to make it appear thinner and rounder (blackhawks are so dayum blocky looking) and Holy of Holy's ..... this Blackhawk actually has a steel rear sight!!!!
First one I ever seen in steel, so, to the stones, its hard hard steel too, files skitter right off it, but knocked off all the sharpe corners and edges since the rear sight don't have them big steel wings on it no more......
and, way down on the front end, I ain't ready to show it yet but that massive turd of a front ramp is shortened, lowered, dovetailed, rounded and smoothed and blended into the barrel and actually looks real nice no bigger than the installed sight is long.
Oh boy, and those grip panels, yummy!
Oh, yeah, shortened the cylinder pin a bit so it can actually be removed without taking off the ejector rod housing and then made the grasping grooves wide enough, deep enough and sharp edged enough so's one can actually pull the durn pin out without having to get plyers cause yer fingers are too darn big for the crowded spot the pin head is in......
but.....Shoots good too......45 caliber.....
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