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BrianPowley · Feb 6, 2009

A picture of my Colt Gold Cup. I thought I was done, but decided it needs a few more scratches here and there on the grip frame.

Dave London · Feb 6, 2009

Brian
Super nice. I have one of those in the safe. Humm Idea's:banana:

Keith · Feb 6, 2009

Beautiful, How many different metals are inlaid into it.?
Keith

BrianPowley · Feb 6, 2009

The inlays are 24K gold, rose gold,green gold, platinum,silver,copper and brass.
If you take into consideration the gun metal gray,the ivory grips, and the blued screws, there are 10 different colors total.

I'm looking at the picture I posted and it seems a little less than sharp. I'll get a better picture of it shortly.

richard hall · Feb 6, 2009

something that pretty really needs someone to handle it, will have to stop down and help you carry it to the range !!!!!

BrianPowley · Feb 6, 2009

Let's try this again

monk · Feb 6, 2009

absolute beauty ! i've shot several thousand rounds thru one of these, but it was never this good lookin !

vanknife · Feb 6, 2009

Brian this is good looking man, i like the different colors, must have been one heck of a job arranging all the colors in the right spots.

I have one Question if i may. Do one start with the harder gold first and if so how do one determine the hardness to know what to proceed with?

Cheers

"VAN"

ETHELBERT · Feb 7, 2009

holy moly is that beautiful! I think the gold colors are extremly striking

Andrew Biggs · Feb 7, 2009

Hi Brian

Looks fabulous!!!!! A very rich collection of colours and some very tricky metals to inlay!!

Cheers
Andrew

Arnaud Van Tilburgh · Feb 7, 2009

Very nice work on that gun Brian, I have never tried inlay, that will be my next struggling propably.

thanks for showing :tiphat:

arnaud

jean-pierre · Feb 7, 2009

Very beautiful work, congratulation Brian !!
Jean-Pierre

joseph engraver · Feb 7, 2009

Great work Brian, but I think that an engraver with your drive for perfection; will keep looking at the work and decide that there a few more places that could use (Just a little touch here or there.)

P.S.Have a great day.

KCSteve · Feb 7, 2009

There's a darn fine Church gun!

But I agree - now that you've made the slide so spiffy you've just got to spruce up the grip.

Glenn · Feb 7, 2009

A very interesting Colt and a clever layout of colors. It was nice to meet you in Reno.

BrianPowley · Feb 7, 2009

Yep I agree with you Joseph and KCSteve about the grip frame.

My very first post on this thread mentioned that very same thing:

"I thought I was done, but decided it needs a few more scratches here and there on the grip frame."

JBrandvik · Feb 7, 2009

Brian,

I'll say it again. I love that 1911! It was one of the highlights of Reno. No photo can do it justice.

Ron Smith · Feb 7, 2009

Hey Monk, that gun only shoots in the ten ring, don't you know..........

Show us after you get the additions in Brian. I tend to agree with you on that.

Beautiful job, by the way!

Ron S

gail.m · Feb 7, 2009

What a great church/barbeque gun! Too nice to hide in a safe!
gailm

Peter E · Feb 7, 2009

EXTREMELY nice Brian. Is the gun stainless? I have a Series 80 in stainless and I was wondering how it would cut?

Peter

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