Thanks Lefty, all sound advice. I know I want something more in line with a restoration not just a refinish. The hammer and trigger will need to be recased since they are currently gold plated, yuk!

On another note I do know for sure that the barrel is not orignally four inches long so I would need to find a new barrel if I went back to factory length. Below is a pic of how it looked when I got it,you might have seen this pic in another thread. Tonight I removed the front sight and barrel sleeve, also cut the barrel down to exactly 4 inches and recrowned it.Also removed the trigger shoeTomorrow I will solder on a correct style front blade just for the hell of it and will post pics when thats done. It has a very cool and very well done beavertail customized hammer.I dont think I will use it on this gun but its so cool I think I will use it in one of my other modded shooters and use one of their original hammers in this gun.
Matt