The DIY 1911 thread... I think I'll call her Becky

[justin_l_]

Not going to lie, looking at this thread made me finally pull the trigger on a Grizzly G0704 small mill in a roundabout way. Thought this would be fun, researched a little and though killing one would be fun, so I ordered it lol. Sub'd

[TeXJ]

andddddd I'm sub'd haha

[DER E30]

I be watching!

She'll also be kept at my desk, (one of the benefits of working from home) because why not? My Tavor won't be doing much good upstairs next to my bed if I ever needed it while working.

Bring Tavor down next to desk??? I do that with a 12 gauge, just because why .45 when you can 12 gauge?

[jalopi]

Sup bros, thought I'd do a build thread for the DIY 1911 frame I got from Stealth Arms. I bought two, a full size government frame and a "compact" frame which ended up being a midsize commander frame instead of an actual compact officers' frame. Oh well... guess I'll make it work somehow. It's not like you can CC in MD easily anyway

I digress. This time around I'll be putting Becky together, which'll be done on the full size frame. The goal is to make a pretty range piece that's fairly accurate and reliable. She'll also be kept at my desk, (one of the benefits of working from home) because why not? My Tavor won't be doing much good upstairs next to my bed if I ever needed it while working.

Anyway, here's the view I got hit with when I opened the box :D



Everything in there seems to be made quite well. I opted to have both frames bead blasted from the manufacturer, no idea how they'd look un-blasted. Here's a few shots of Becky:






Here's a shot of Becky on a scale - she's only a scant 119 grams! A good girl always watches her weight :p



Here's a few shots of Becky next to her shorter sister. Haven't thought of a name for her yet, maybe you guys can give some suggestions






The sister's a total of 1/4" shorter than Becky and her "slide rails" (if you know what I mean ;D) are about 1/8" shorter as well.

Here's what you get in the rest of the box: two scuff pads, an (anti-warping?) block, all three drills that you need, both pins, a bolt and two allen keys



Now it's time to test fit this jig and see if it's everything they cracked it up to be.



So far so good, though I wasn't impressed with their cuts on the locating pins/dowels. Kinda looks like they used a shear or something dull to cut em



So far so good....



Testing for fitment




Now, I'm not sure if you guys could see that too well in the first fitment pic, but there is a gap between the jig and the frame. This might be a slightly better shot



When the plates are squeezed together by hand near the end, the gap closes right up, bet it'll do just fine with a C clamp or something. Regardless, decided to measure the gap and see what I come up with




I guess eight thousandths isn't horrible... but I'm definitely gonna clamp the plates when I go to cut the slide rails.

That's it for now, more coming soon!