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How does the melonite finish hold up to constant holster use?
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02-26-2011, 10:08 AM
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How does the melonite finish hold up to constant holster use?
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It is on my 108309 1911 that I carry at work....no wear at all with LOTS of holstering and re-holstering...(wok related and bathroom)
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02-26-2011, 01:52 PM
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I just left the local Cop shop. They are a S&W distributor now.
I told them to: A) See if they can get confirmation that new Melonite 4566TSW's exist. If so....
B) Get me a quote on one with no rail and no holes in the dustcover. And without the "tactical" banner on the slide.
I'll let y'all know what they tell me.
FWIW the melonite finish on my special order 4566 has held up pretty well. It wore slightly on the edges of the muzzle and more on the decocker paddles and slide stop. Not bad though IMO. Regards 18DAI
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Originally Posted by 18DAI
I just left the local Cop shop. They are a S&W distributor now.
I told them to: A) See if they can get confirmation that new Melonite 4566TSW's exist. If so....
B) Get me a quote on one with no rail and no holes in the dustcover. And without the "tactical" banner on the slide.
I'll let y'all know what they tell me.
FWIW the melonite finish on my special order 4566 has held up pretty well. It wore slightly on the edges of the muzzle and more on the decocker paddles and slide stop. Not bad though IMO. Regards 18DAI
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Let us know what you find out. I'll try to remember to ask the region LE rep next time he stops by and I'm there.
I haven't spoken to anyone about the TSW line since they moved their production to Maine (other than ordering some various parts).
BTW, the manual safety and slide stop lever assemblies don't receive the Melonite treatment, but just a "plain" black finish. I've sometimes ordered those parts in plain stainless finish instead of black finish.
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02-26-2011, 02:56 PM
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Hmmmm, keep building and selling things people want to buy. What a novel idea.
Maybe the fact that my agency buys a few hundred, if not thousand, 5946s each year will help keep this trend going.
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02-26-2011, 05:57 PM
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We need to get a distributor (Lew Horton, RSR, etc) to get in on a batch of these for us!
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02-26-2011, 06:15 PM
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We need to get a distributor (Lew Horton, RSR, etc) to get in on a batch of these for us!
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Or just take over S&W
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02-27-2011, 03:59 PM
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We need to get a distributor (Lew Horton, RSR, etc) to get in on a batch of these for us!
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What the heck...I emailed Lew Horton's. I figured it can't hurt.
As for the roll markings I couldn't care less if it said "Lew Horton Tactical Old School" or even something stupid like "Spec Ops." Hopefully the BG won't be close enough to read it 
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I just left the local Cop shop. They are a S&W distributor now.
I told them to: A) See if they can get confirmation that new Melonite 4566TSW's exist. If so....
B) Get me a quote on one with no rail and no holes in the dustcover. And without the "tactical" banner on the slide.
I'll let y'all know what they tell me.
FWIW the melonite finish on my special order 4566 has held up pretty well. It wore slightly on the edges of the muzzle and more on the decocker paddles and slide stop. Not bad though IMO. Regards 18DAI
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Yeah, I'd like to know about this new run also.
Until I can get one, though, I guess I'll have to be "satisfied" with my merely Plain-Jane 4566, an L.E. trade-in gun. My FFL grabbed it for me some years back when CDNN had them:
Once I cleaned it up and shot it a while, I decided to get it hard-chromed. The internals were in great shape, as were the tritium low-light sights, but the slide & frame had a few scratches as well as some holster wear.
Has none of the TSW stuff, nor a light rail, but it'll do what I need it to do, plus it looks NIB:
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02-27-2011, 03:40 AM
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Once I cleaned it up and shot it a while, I decided to get it hard-chromed.
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Who did the work? How much? How long ago?
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Who did the work? How much? How long ago?
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Sorry I got back late on this thread. Sent it in to Virgil Tripp @ Tripp Research. His business was hard-chrome work, but he also sells 1911 mags for 10mms & .45s and offers pistolsmithing services.
This was about 3-yrs ago. If I recall correctly, it was $300 or so for the whole gun. They'll also do just the slide or frame.
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Sorry I got back late on this thread. Sent it in to Virgil Tripp @ Tripp Research. His business was hard-chrome work, but he also sells 1911 mags for 10mms & .45s and offers pistolsmithing services.
This was about 3-yrs ago. If I recall correctly, it was $300 or so for the whole gun. They'll also do just the slide or frame.
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http://www.trippresearch.com/objects/chrome.html
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The melonite on my M&P 9 is wearing pretty fast behind the ejection port in the Safariland ALS holster.
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The melonite on my M&P 9 is wearing pretty fast behind the ejection port in the Safariland ALS holster.
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That's just the finish on top of the Melonite metal treatment (hardening) and is just cosmetic. To my surprise, you can touch it up with a Birchwood-Casey blue pen, but it will just wear again...
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I just left the local Cop shop. They are a S&W distributor now.
I told them to: A) See if they can get confirmation that new Melonite 4566TSW's exist. If so....
B) Get me a quote on one with no rail and no holes in the dustcover. And without the "tactical" banner on the slide.
I'll let y'all know what they tell me.
FWIW the melonite finish on my special order 4566 has held up pretty well. It wore slightly on the edges of the muzzle and more on the decocker paddles and slide stop. Not bad though IMO. Regards 18DAI
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Let me know what you find out, I would be interested in getting one with or without the rail! Man I love the 4506/4566 series of pistols!
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Crossing my fingers.
I'll cross my fingers.......but am not ready to hold my breath yet at the prospects of new runs of civilian-available 3rd generation 4566's and/or 4506's.....but would definitely buy one......or more.
Does anybody have any idea what these guns would sell for today ???
I'm thinking they would have msrp's well over $800. Just look at the prices of all steel 1911's. I think that's one of the major decision issues for S&W. They probably know there's a ton of folks that love the 3rg gen. autos (I'm a huge 2nd gen. model 645 fan myself)....but they also are leery of a market for $800 ++ handguns given the competition. Not trying to pee on the parade here....I'm a fan, and would buy....but just a thought about some business reality.
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I personally would be up for a melonite 4566 with the integral rail, especially if it had the bobed hammer like the WVSP model. 
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This is the version I want too.
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