The Recipe - 3rd gen slide serrations

[GaryS]

Please stop putting ideas in my head.

I bet those forward serrations would look great on a 457.........maybe with a Melonite finish on the slide.....and a big dot sight up front.....with blacked out Novak rear.

 

[Green Frog]

...Also thinking about two tone because, why not

Cheers
Bill

Why not, indeed! Two tone is old school and real cool.
Froggie

 

[stansdds]

Love the concept of a dot on the front sight, plain black rear sight. It just seems to make sense for faster front sight pickup.

 

[rosewood]

I am confused. You said you had a 5906 they guy wanted serrations on, but the gun you did was a 4506. I am guessing you did your initial trial run on the 4506 before working on the customers gun?

I am eager to see the pics of the gun after it is Isonite QPQ'd.

Rosewood

 

[Doug M.]

Ahoy there Gents...

I have this fellows 5906 here and among other things to do he was pretty insistent on adding forward slide serrations. Not a problem says I but... I haven't done this operation before and a mistake here is quite difficult to un-do. So, I took a good deal of time to crunch the numbers, work out the fixturing and do a bunch of test cuts.

I figured the information I compiled would be useful to share here. Should any of you gents want similar work done on one of your pieces just take these details to a machinist or gunsmith and you should be golden...

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One guy's opinion: If you take the figures to a random person, no matter how good they are, instead of having Bill do it, you're not very smart.