This is not a "full house" gun so to speak, but it is a pretty good example of our average upgrade work and shows our hardtail conversion in its most current configuration.
A customer contacted me about working over a Dan Wesson CBOB. He told me to do whatever I would do if it were my own carry gun. That of course is a dangerous thing to say to a gunsmith; luckily for him the Dan Wesson is already an impressively fitted piece of equipment for the price.
The Dan Wessons already come with an excellent slide to frame fit and a barrel/bushing fit that is far beyond the usual factory fit in the price range.
The only things he specified were the hardtail, flush cut barrel, and that the barrel/bushing/plug be left stainless color. We discussed the other options and here is what came out.
I went ahead and changed the sights to my preferred carry set up of an all black rear and front night sight with white ring. I also serrated the rear of the slide to match and blend with the rear sight.
I changed the MIM slide stop for a EGW barstock unit, and changed the trigger for a solid Harrison Design unit that removes more pretravel, we also fitted it to remove a lot of the vertical slop. I also did some minor action work on the existing parts.
I fitted a different Ed Brown bobtail housing with 25lpi checkering for an improved grip and beveled out the magwell to max dimensions for smooth reloads.
I cleaned up the vertical borders on the frontstrap checkering and did a little polishing/dehorning where needed.
Finally the whole thing was treated in our Superblack (salt bath nitride) finish for excellent durability (particularly of the slide-to-frame fit) and a little less "bling"...
Here are the important things- Pics...
Please remember that I'm no Jason Burton so ignore the liberal helping of dust, oil and other things that don't belong in pictures...
-Roy Nelson-
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