Building Your Custom 1911

It all starts here. After your frame and slide have been picked out, our Master Gunsmiths start out by doing the slide-to-frame fit and then hand lapping it in. You will always be able to tell it’s one of our guns when you pull the slide back. The slide feels as though it is running on ball bearings from the first day you get it, and it only gets better with shooting. Next will come the barrel fit. None of our barrels are drop-in. Each barrel lug is worked down with a file slowly and methodically until it fits the slid recess. Following that, they will fit the extractor and checker the rear of the slide on the Talon or Predator models. Don’t forget the slide top serrations. If it’s a GRP, this is when they cut down the slide stop and chamfer the frame around the slide stop hole to allow you to push it out easily. Once this is completed, it’s off for final preparation.

Custom Upgrades

Ambi Safety		$65
Bull Barrel		$150
Heinie Rear Sight		$50
Fiber Optic Sights		$50
Crimson Trace Laser Grips		$200
Alumagrips		$35
Gator Back Grips		$35
Blended Magazine Well (Nighthawk)		$150
Blended Magazine Well (Smith & Alexander)		$250
Ed Brown Bobtail™		$150
Chain Link Front Strap or Main Spring Housing		$100
Stippled Frame		$200
Stippled Front of Trigger Guard		$100
Stippled Underside of Trigger Guard		$125
Hard Chrome Frame		$225
Hard Chrome Slide		$125
Complete Hard Chrome		$350
Hard Chrome Individual Parts		$15
Perma Kote Slide Finish		$80
Perma Kote Frame Finish		$170
Perma Kote Individual Parts		$10
Complete Perma Kote Finish   (Customer supplied 1911 or Nighthawk)		$250
Diamond Black™ Frame		$225
Diamond Black™ Slide		$125
Complete Diamond Black™		$350
Diamond™ Finish-Dark Earth Frame		$225
Diamond™ Finish-Dark Earth Slide		$125
Diamond™ Finish-Dark Earth		$350
Adjustable Sights    (Bo-Mar, Novak or Nighthawk Custom)		$100
No Front Cocking Serrations		$50
Checker Front of Trigger Guard		$125
Checker Underside of Trigger Guard		$125
Serrated Slide Top		$90
Shorten Slide Stop & Bevel Frame		$50
Custom Block Lettering		$150
Additional Extractor Finished & Tuned		$60
Aftec Extractor Upgrade		$60
Additional Aftec Extractor Fit to Gun		$110
Checker Rear of Slide		$100
Caliber Change (9mm  or 40S&W)		$200
Recon Frame (any model, Gov't or Commander)		$100

We will be happy to build your gun using any high quality part you desire. You will be charged the price of the part and $7.50 shipping from Brownells, or you can buy the part and send it to us.