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If I'm doing this correctly, here in all its glory is the gun Ned built for me, that he showed off at the SHOT show. A Ti commander in 9, with a YoBo rear modified to Ned's "Shield Driver" shape.

What you see is a ten-shot group from the Ransom rest at 30 yards. Hornady 124 XTP. 1.18" center to center on the widest shots. Oh, it likes that ammo.

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Patrick, use tinypic.com for sharing
mucho better

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Hmmm, working when I look at it. I'll try tinypic then. How's that now?

Cool as heck.

How is the external extractpo working? Gary says in 9mm they are flawless (but he is biased...)

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Looks great, very impressive group, very impressive indeed.

Is that a Titanium race-ready frame or did NEd build up something custom?

It was a Race Ready.

Patrick said he had some probs with the extractor, which he rectified. I thought it was fine-- no probs in test firing, but-- the customer is always the ultimate test firer. What was the deal on that, Patrick?

The Ti was, as always, a pleasure to work with-- easy to machine and file, cutters last forever...... yeah right

Patrick, I hope that isnt the only picture you are planning on posting. That would be unacceptable.

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The extractor was ancient, one of the very first Caspian made for the externals. Gary sent me one of the newest ones, with a much larger hook on it. I had to do some "adjustment" of Ned's fine fitting to make it go into the slide. (Nothing that shows on the outside) and it works flawlessly.

Ti does seem to be a bit picky about lube. If I shoot it too much without adding more, I can feel it getting sluggish.

Ain't that the truth ! Ti like it wet. When I used mine in a shooting class, by around 300 or so round count, I can feel the slide getting sloooow. Then I know it's time to add some lube.

Ned, Can you make one of those in 9x23?

I'm sure he can. However, with 9mm+P or +P+ ammo, it can be sharp:

W-w 115 JHP+P+ 1345 fps
Cor-bon 115+P 1253

And I couldn't lay hands on the really hot stuff for that range trip. As light as it is (I have to drag out the P-B postal scale) I'm not sure I'd want something much hotter.

I really dig that trigger!

Oh, my!

Does carburizing help? I am waiting on a Commander with a Ti frame from George @ EGW. He was having Tripp carburize the frame to help with the galling issues.

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As soon as I can between writing articles on it, I'm sending it off to Virgil for some TLC in the cosmetics department. the rails will get hit, so I'll be able to report on the carburizing, crbidizing, uhhh, rail coolstuff.

How big are your hands, man? In the picture that Commander looks like a toy gun. Maybe it's just the angle or something but it looks like you have baseball mitts for hands.

Remember that guy in "The Rocketeer", the bad guy who carried a 1911 in each front pocket? Sweeney can beat him 3 out of 5 in thumb wrestling

You gals know what they say about men with big hands and big feet:

"Big shoes and big gloves."

That's Dick Heinie's personal Government model, by the way.

Patrick, thanks for sharing the picture of the Ti 9mm.

Okay, now that I have been a little nice, where the heck are the rest of them? I beleive if you look in the forum rules you will see that any gun built by a LTW board member cannot be presented with any less than four pictures. However, subsection two, paragraph four states that any gun built by Ned "Metalmaster" Christiansen must have no fewer than six.

I realize that as a successful and informative gun writer you have a lot of "other work" to do so we will forgive this slight oversight as long as it is rectified immediately

Truly neat blaster. I concur with the above poster that the trigger is sweet. The best part about a Ned gun is that even when you aren't shooting it you can hold it and look at stuff and wonder how the heck he did it. I stand next to the mill with Ned's work and wonder how to do it. So far I just sacrifice parts to the milling machine hoping that it will be appeased and produce some "Ned's apprentice" work.

That's maybe the 4th or 5th Ti gun I've worked on. The 4th I think. So, call it number 4 of 5.

I'll be interested in your results on the rail treatments, Patrick. I'm sure they'll help. Ti sure is an obstinate material-- it's incredibly hard to mine and process, then it comes to me and resists every attempt to work it, but put a slide on it and run it back and forth a few times and suddenly it starts acting all soft and gooey.

OK, to follow the rules, I've posted some more. "I have observed the forms of Kanly." (Identify the quote, and I'll post more.)

The Nedster Shield-driver rear sight:



Another look at the trigger, and the lifted frontstrap:



Conamyds, the rarest of species due to low reproduction rates:

Dune. The rules governing conflict. Post away....

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I was beat to it. My contribution was going to be, "formal feud or vendetta according to the ancient tongue," but I could not recall the actual reference. Now, I believe you must offer up shall we say, six more pictures

You got yourself a keeper there, Patrick. Neds work is way kewl.

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Failure to post more pictures within 2 hours (or, shall we say... before my wife and I leave for Paradise Lake for our Anniversary ) is enough grounds for immediate and permanent banning!

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OK, how's about this:

The super-secret Nedster grip safety:



A race-ready, after Ned is done with it:



Start with a good barrel. Add genius.



The rails, with the coating wearing off after 500 rounds or so. Gotta get some sort of plating/treatment:

hey patrick, have you seen tripp's cabide treatment for the rails yet?

Just got done talking to Virgil about it, and The Beast is headed South.