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Originally posted by x0225095:
I like your blue VZ's.

They are LOK's.

Holy thread resurrection Batman!!!

I appreciate the suggestions, old and new, but I've been unable to find anything that "trips my trigger" so to speak and have moved on to other things on my wish list. I have added a Nightmare carry, a compact CZ, a couple third gen Smith autos and a half dozen Sigs to my collection in the past year. The Vbob is just gonna have to do for now.

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Originally posted by wolfe 21:
The Vbob is just gonna have to do for now.

Hell you can make a CBOB / VBOB look fantastic with just a few tweaks. Here's mine:

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Originally posted by wolfe 21:
Holy thread resurrection Batman!!!

I appreciate the suggestions, old and new, but I've been unable to find anything that "trips my trigger" so to speak and have moved on to other things on my wish list. I have added a Nightmare carry, a compact CZ, a couple third gen Smith autos and a half dozen Sigs to my collection in the past year. The Vbob is just gonna have to do for now.

If you like the S&W 3rd Gen then buy a 4506 and Flitz or Simichrome and polish that big boy up. Have not done it myself but I have used for sale that might be used as shaving mirrors.

Money no object, I would love a Doug Turnbull 1911. Probably something case hardened. I have a Brown but Turnbull’s stuff is amazing.

https://www.turnbullrestoratio...heritage-model-1911/

I'm with GaryBF, go with Ed Brown..

Great thread. Thanks for resurrecting it.

Another vote for Eb Brown. Here's my very Plain Jane version. The closest catalog model is the Executive Target. This one was ordered with an unmarked slide as well as an untextured front strap. The grip safety is their abbreviated 'Concealed Carry' model. Given the option, I would have preferred a GI profile grip safety, thumb safety and hammer.

Really great looking pistols on this page, I especially like the grips on your pistol, bald1.

The pistol posted just above with the changes made that hsj157 listed would be just about an ideal for me, honestly. I want a pistol just like my '43 Remington-Rand in stainless with some modern sights and a nice trigger and the rest as much the same as possible, including an arched mainspring housing.

I had a Springfield Loaded Champion I bought used with 1918 Colt blued controls, mainspring housing, and trigger along with the matching Colt 1918 double diamond walnut grips that came off the cracked donor frame. The whole thing was matte stainless with polished slide flats that I further polished to mirror smooth. I wished it was Gov't length, and something a bit nicer like an Ed Brown with those appointments. It would have been a fantastic range gun, and I intend to build one up just like that.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Really great looking pistols on this page, I especially like the grips on your pistol, bald1.

Those grips on my Dan Wesson CBOB are Ryan Payne's (aka Sarge) Finer Grain custom "tweener" grips in "3D" Afzelia Xylay with satin polyurethane finish. http://www.thefinergrain.com/

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Really great looking pistols on this page, I especially like the grips on your pistol, bald1.

Those grips on my Dan Wesson CBOB are Ryan Payne's (aka Sarge) Finer Grain custom "tweener" grips in "3D" Afzelia Xylay with satin polyurethane finish. http://www.thefinergrain.com/

Some nice work there, thanks for the link!

bald one ,that D.W. 50th is wonderful

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Originally posted by cmr076:
if you can find an older Kimber (from the Clackamas) era, they are really beautiful. I have one in that shiny black "chrome" finish and everyone that sees it raves about it

Yep, that's the ticket. I have two Classic Stainless Gold Matches and they are quite something They are 'series 1', even though they are Yonkers guns, not Clackamas.

This is the modern version of what I have.

H&K-Guy