Work in progress.....

[War_Eagle]

Hello all, I wanted to post some information and photos of my 6906. I originally picked it up from G.B. for $300 in good internal shape and fair exterior condition. I have included photos of the before and the up to now progress. I began by sending the entire lower frame to Dynamic Armament, a small company in Iowa and had it Cerakoted in graphite black,(matte). Cerakote is an extremely hard and durable coating, meeting all military specs. Upon the frames return, I installed a complete set of Wolfe springs, a NOS barrel I found online, polished it as well as the entire slide inside and out(still working on this) added new Hogue grips, a spurred hammer from a 5906 and touched up the three dot sights with two color fluorescent. I was having an issue with the SA/DA function which I resolved with help from the members, thank you. It is a very nice CCW and the two tone suits me to a tee. I have a date with a friend to finish the polishing on an industrial machine instead of my dremel. I added the original condition picture and the up to date one as well.

 

[nocents]

looks very nice....love the 2 tone as well......curious why you added the spurred hammer???

 

[War_Eagle]

Nothing more than a personal preference. I have always carried spurred hammer autos and it feels natural to me.

 

[kcode]

Nice work so far, I just wish someone made a decent replacement grip panel for the 6906. I tried the Hogues on mine but it increased the girth too much, even tried sanding down the finger grooves and ended up going back to the factory grip.

 

[JohnHL]

Looks good!

John

 

[tom-tom]

Nice work.

 

[sophie]

Looks good and I like the two-tone.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Did the same thing with a 6904 about a year ago......the anodizing on the frame is a weak link on the 04s... result is a nice reverse two tone!

For grips try stippling the factory ones with a soldering iron......really improves the grip and I think the looks...... go slow or they will warp...but that can be fixed if you need to using boiling water to reheat the edges of the grips........ all my third gen guns have gotten this treatment.