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February 18, 2010
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I know you can't really improve on perfection but has anyone ever had any custom work done, aethetic, precision, or whatever? Pics?
"Life does not have to be perfect, just lived".
"Deserves got nothin' to do with it".
September 26, 2010
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I had a 22 LR cylinder converted to .22 magnum.
A .357 shroud tapped for a scope mount.
A TC encore scope mount cut down and modified for a EWK shroud that then was tapped and mounted.
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March 2, 2008
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Well, just remember, you asked.
Lower 15-2 is my original DW, bought new in 1977, exactly the way I bought it.
Upper is my Bright Nickel project, a 15-2 that I got at a good price and had refinished locally. I spec'd it to leave the trigger, hammer, rear and front sight blued. It's wearing a custom LB Dan Wesson Collectors Association grip. An absolute one of a kind custom.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin
August 28, 2009
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Nickel looks great. I may consider nickel plating on my next custom refinish.
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Steve CT said
Well, just remember, you asked.
Lower 15-2 is my original DW, bought new in 1977, exactly the way I bought it.
Upper is my Bright Nickel project, a 15-2 that I got at a good price and had refinished locally. I spec'd it to leave the trigger, hammer, rear and front sight blued. It's wearing a custom LB Dan Wesson Collectors Association grip. An absolute one of a kind custom.
The nickel is really incredible looking. How does it stand up to cleaning? Any special considerations?
"Life does not have to be perfect, just lived".
"Deserves got nothin' to do with it".
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DrSparky said
zoom.
I like that EHB look!
"Life does not have to be perfect, just lived".
"Deserves got nothin' to do with it".
August 28, 2009
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SIGWolf said
The nickel is really incredible looking. How does it stand up to cleaning? Any special considerations?
There are two types of nickel plating, electroless and electroplate. Electroplating utilizes a copper base and you cannot use a copper solvent in cleaning your gun. Any nicks or small fractures (even invisible to the eye) in the nickel may allow the solvent to migrate under the nickel and start to corrode the copper. In this case the nickel plating will also flake, peel, and corrode.
Electroless nickel is a more durable plating finish and is more tolerant to harsher solvents.
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March 2, 2008
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Along with what harly noted, I will also say that I shoot this gun less that any of the others, simply because I want it to stay in perfect condition, and the same tends to apply to my blued 15-2 as well. They are not safe queens, but I shoot the stainless guns much more often.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin
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February 28, 2009
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I had the following don to my Razorback RZ-45:
Skeletonized trigger
Ambi safety
polished flats on the frame
Custom engraving - Razorback RZ-45 on right side of slide and Dan Wesson signature on left side of the slide.
Above all done by Dan Wesson.
And grips by Esmeralda.
The lower gun in the pic is my wife's PM-9. All stock except for grips by Esmeralda.
-Mike
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January 24, 2009
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Zoommb, those both look beautiful!
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