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Jason Burton
PostPosted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:31 am 
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Photo of the day... bevels, edge breaks, and hand filed de-horn on everything.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:40 am 
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Photo of the day... lots of prep and polish before blueing.

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Jason Burton
PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:07 am 
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Photo of the day... couple more prep and polish pics showing the polished edge wrapped around the grip safety.

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Jason Burton
PostPosted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:53 am 
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Photo of the day... some before and after on a fun little project. A client I built a gun for a few years ago got a Swenson built Colt Commander that at some point lost its barrel positioner. Installing a new barrel positioner isn’t a terribly difficult job to do; once the existing hard chrome had been stripped I fabricated a new positioner and silver soldered it into place. After shaping and sizing the barrel positioner I matched the existing hand-matte slide top then had the slide hard chromed once more. A fun project and nice to have the chance put another Swenson gun back into service.

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Don Williams
PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:46 am 
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Nice job Jason. I'm just finishing up a sort of retro build on a CLW prefix lightweight Commander that's going out for plating on Monday. Love doing the S&W rear sights and such. Also notice the addition to the grip safety on the Swenson gun. Haven't seen that mod before.

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Jason Burton
PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 3:25 pm 
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Photo of the day... a little final fitting and finish then done.

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Jason Burton
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Photo of the day... plugging away at this Colt, the beavertail shaping and blending is finished.

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Photo of the day... bright and shiny barrel crown and feed-ramp/barrel throat.

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Jason Burton
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Photo of the day…. fine tuning on the barrel fit and slide stop notch.

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Jason Burton
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Photo of the day... turning handles and making chips, machining front and rear sight dovetails.

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Thank you for continuing to post your work. It is inspirational. I may never equal your work, but it drives me to try harder.
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Jason Burton
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BBBBill wrote:
Thank you for continuing to post your work. It is inspirational. I may never equal your work, but it drives me to try harder.


Thank you sir!

Photo of the day... these two went to their respective homes this week and as always I’m thankful for the clients who let me do the work that I love.

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Photo of the day... getting the front sight centered and bore sighting for approximate hight.

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Jason Burton
PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:16 am 
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Photo of the day... thumb safety and slide top details and a before and after showing the removal of manufacturing/tooling marks left on the backing plate around the safety lever.

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Photo of the day... working the trigger job on a current Colt project.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 11:11 am 
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I really like the look of a traditional Commander hammer with a large hole.
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Jason Burton
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BBBBill wrote:
I really like the look of a traditional Commander hammer with a large hole.


Me too... and it works well with the overall theme of this gun.

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Photo of the day... front strap high-cut and flattened and 30lpi checkering pattern laid out. Now all I’ve got to do is push the file straight and make points.

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Photo of the day… finished hand-cut 30lpi checkering getting this piece a bit closer to completion.

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Photo of the day… I was asked about the edge lines on this particular checkering job, so here’s a photo taken at the same time but from another angle.

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Jason Burton
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Photo of the day... mainspring housing hand-checkered at 30lpi as well as before and after blending to frame and beveling mag-well.

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Photo of the day... a before and after from the current Colt build shows the results of fixing a couple of odd factory machining paths that resulted in some gaps that I couldn’t live with.

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Jason Burton wrote:
Photo of the day... a before and after from the current Colt build shows the results of fixing a couple of odd factory machining paths that resulted in some gaps that I couldn’t live with.


That gap has bugged a lot of folks. TIG??
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BBBBill wrote:
Jason Burton wrote:
Photo of the day... a before and after from the current Colt build shows the results of fixing a couple of odd factory machining paths that resulted in some gaps that I couldn’t live with.


That gap has bugged a lot of folks. TIG??


Yup...

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Photo of the day… mag-catch before and after, facing angle and hand-cut 40lpi checkering.

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Photo of the day... test fire and zeroing done, on to the final details.

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Photo of the day... starting the de-horn.

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