I posted this one by request at the 1911 Forum and decided to also show it here for a few days in case there are any Steve Nastoff fans on LTW.
This is a 'full-house' custom Colt Combat Commander by Steve Nastoff, ca. 1990.
Details follow the pic.
Major 'Unseen' Details
• Base Gun DOB/Colt-Factory-Build-Date was in the 1970s
• Hard-fitted Bar-Sto barrel
• Barrel positioner opposite ejection port
• Peened-and-lapped slide fit
• Hand-swaged/formed mag well...Done
after (!) FS checkering
IMO, that took
guts (or something...)
History ('Nastoff's .45 Shop' and Beyond...)
• The gun is
fully-documented.
• The hand-written build sheet is
two 'carbon-copy' receipts long.
• The original envelope it was mailed in is postmarked
July 1990.
• The lengthy list of features the customer ordered added up to a cost of
$3363.00.
• Assuming the docs aren't 'fake'
(doubtful, IMO) the gun was in the collection of the famous pistolsmith, Richard Heinie, for many years.
Changes
• No permanent changes have been made to the build -
Except wear from shooting it.
• The gun had the
black-small-part/two-tone thing 'going on' as-built
(trigger, Bomar sight, and Nastoff hammer).
• It also had an S&A ambi mag catch that I changed for an Ed Brown.
• IIRC, the
('temp/replacement') MSH pin is an Ed Brown part, too.
• I 'replaced' all the springs with new Wolff
Commander-Standard-Parts.
• I happen to like blued Allen screws on nice wood grips, especially red/brown/purple ones.
• I have
all the original parts.
Photo(s)
• I am
not a photographer.
• I
am OTH.
• Proof of the above? The camera was a
Canon SD800IS equipped with the world-reknowned,
Fabulous Fisheye-Featured Optics.
• The shot was taken indoors under mostly mixed-source artificial light, plus some 'natural rays' filtered though glass
(a sliding glass door, to be 'exact'...).
• The background was a 'soda lime glass' desk top.
• No flash was used.
(I'm not that far gone. Yet.)
• The pic was resized from 1600x1200 to 800x600 for this post.
• No other 'effects' were applied.
• The original full-size pic is on Photobucket
here.
Misc
• Regarding the 'mismatch,' I plan to have a few small-parts hard-chromed by Metaloy and install those.
(Someday...)
• If
my history is any indication, I will take down the pic within a month or so, possibly sooner.
• Meantime, enjoy!
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