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Man, even though these guys are my buddies, it is hard to post anything but my best work here!
By 'best' I mean a full-blown, full-house custom. Well I'll show a few pics of a recently completed pair of Kimbers. Original NW guns. No external extractors or firing pin safeties.
Not 'full house' by any means.
But serious use guns by most standards.

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"Now thems what I call fightin' guns"!

Kudos Chuck. Beauties!

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Very nice, my kinda guns - understated.

Whose grips?

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Are the front sights the XS dot?

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chuck, looks great... but its still a kimber.....

Might be a Kimber but it is easily the nicest set of Kimbers I have ever seen. You certainly did these up nice Chuck.

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Those are some very nice looking Kimbers. Not too fancy but the workmanship is evident!

Chuck,

Very fine work as usual. Did you GunKote these? Please list mods if you don't mind.

Regards,
Aubrey

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The grips are from Hogue. They have several new and interesting 'checkering' textures!

Dovetailed front sight with Trijicon tritium lamp, green with white outline.
Novak rear sight with Rogers’ modification and two Trijicon tritium lamps
yellow with no white outlines.
Stainless steel match grade barrel bushing, fitted.
Modify ejection port to clear loaded cartridges.
Extended ejector, tuned.
Bar stock oversized firing pin stop, fitted. Wilson ‘bulletproof’ extractor, fitted.
Reliability package including remachining of feed ramp.
Wilson barrel link.
G.I. style recoil spring guide rod and plug.
Modify magazine catch to prevent overtravel capture of magazine.
Wilson #337 ‘ultralight’ hammer.
Wilson A6 tool steel sear.
Colt disconnector.
Wolff sear spring.
Greider long trigger, internally lightened.
Trigger job 3.75 - 4.00 lbs.
Brown’s thumb safety, custom contoured.
Permanently secure plunger tube.
Plunger spring and plungers assembly.
High cut and serrate frontstrap 25 lpi.
Brown’s mainspring housing. Serrated 25 lpi. Fitted.
Bevel magazine well, 15 degrees.
Carry bevel package including modifications to slide stop hole and
slide stop.
Modify front slide grasping serrations. Reduce height 50%.
Test ammo and range time.
Parkerize and Gun-Kote. Two tone. Black over dark grey.

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Thank God it's not a full house; you might have needed two pages to list the mods then

Nicely done, as always, Chuck.
Lenny

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[quote="Chuck Rogers"]...
Modify front slide grasping serrations. Reduce height 50%.
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Chuck,

Please elaborate on the functional merit of this mod (e.g., does it prevent holster damage, improve purchase during pinch checks...)

Thanks!
Aubrey

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Wow! I never thought highly of using a Kimber as a base for a full custom job (mainly because I hate the rollmark on the left side of the slide and the wide serrations) but it looks like Chuck can make a materpiece out of anything! NICE.

Very nice! I had a pair of similarily set up Kimbers in the same ser# range. I had to have a local smith work on slide stop problems on both. He wound up fitting .38 Super slide stops and they worked perfectly. Did you encounter anything like this?

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Chuck,

I'm going to have to go along with the rest of the crowd and say, "You make me want a Kimber." Actually, the original (non-Series II) Kimbers do kind of draw me in. When they came out, at least from the few I saw about 8 - 10 years ago, they were very well put together when compared to other 1911s. Some people shy away from them because of the use of "lesser grade" components, and others because of the large slide markings, but I think they make great utility guns. I'm sure your version makes them great anything guns. Thanks for sharing.

~Jim Keeney

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Some Kimbers have issues with the magewell broach location and this can cause failures to lock back. I have only seen this on the early generation guns.

I had a Jardine custom on a Kimber that would only lock back on 7rd Metalform mags and then only sporadically. A fitted .38 stop cured it.

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