Great video! Most people will have trouble with "rocking" the file or stone, so that they won't have a square flat surface. Glad you cautioned them about it. A trick that I learned when making custom knives was to take a 1/8" or 3/32 brass rod and cut off a small section about 2" long, then cut a split in the end of it about 1/2" deep. Then you can insert and wrap wet/dry sand paper around the slit in the end of the rod, making a "flap wheel". Use it in your dremel or foredom tool to remove heavy coatings or deep scratches. I picked up my Mac 9 on Tuesday, but haven't had a chance to shoot it yet. Overall I am impressed with it. Tolerances are good with very little slop in the slide fit, barrel locks up good, and it tight at the muzzle. Trigger is a little heavy, I'll try to adjust to around 4# for a EDC gun. Also plan on replacing the springs and polishing everything up when I get home next month. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Solid purchase! I'm glad my videos were helpful in some way. The tisas is pretty much the best starting place (in my opinion) for practicing these techniques. A bit of polishing and cleaning up on those goes a long ways. Enjoy!
@@MyLonewolf25 looks solid to me! I'm excited to see reviews on it. Looks like a great option at a good price. I like fusion firearms. I buy a lot of their parts. Good quality for a good price.
Woohoo! if you have experience with mechanical systems and some practice it comes pretty easy. Nice to have some confirmation from a non-professional hahahah. I hope maybe you picked up a few tidbits of new information or a new technique. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video! Much like the other 1911/2011 tutorials, I think this one will be good, evergreen content for the future. Also, holy shit, an hour and a half is a ton of time/effort put into this. I'm just thinking about the editing/rendering time, let alone the actual filming/planning. As always, love the video!
Much appreciated man! Yeah this one took a long time. Probably a week of evenings writing the script. Another week of evenings filming and doing the work. And a 3rd week of editing. I probably took apart 6 different guns 5 times each haha. I hope its helpful to a lot of people!
I feel like I'm watching myself work on all this stuff... But with good commentary! LoL I always wondered if I had a decent process but I'm thinking I'm doing ok. Thanks for the video
i made a comment at the start of the video when i saw the lapping compound asked a question about lapping slides, specifically 2011's thinking it was smart😂boy was I humbled 1:00:00 into this video. did you a favor and deleted that lmaoooo! great vid!
Oh dude I read your comment, didnt get a chance to respond before you deleted it. It was a legit question, and I was going to give you a legit answer without being a smart ass I promise!😆A little more information as it relates to the fit of a high end gun. When they machine they frame rails to the final tolerance to get that amazing fit with the slide. They do it in very stable fixturing, they have a very sharp tool. They choose spindle speed and travel speed that is appropriate for the tool, material and a finish pass. They take off very little material on this finish pass - maybe only .002-.005". That machining will likely leave a better finish than the polishing I show here, certainly a finish with equivalent roughness at the very least. Really fine machining can get down to around a 16 microinch finish. I don't know that what I showed here would give me any better than 32 microinch roughness. On a high end gun the fit and machining quality is so good, using lapping compound would make it worse.
Also, I wasn't going to fault you for asking the question when I answer it later in the video. not going to hold it against you if you don't sit thru every second of this fucking 1.5 hour video.🤣
The rear sight is the one that came with the optic plate from the factory. It is .380" tall. The front is one I bought from Dawson precision. It is for a novak dovetail cut and it is .330" tall. I can confirm a novak dovetail cut is "close enough" for the front sight (it took a lot of fitting). Cannot confirm that with the rear sight but guess a Novak dovetail cut would be the place to start. Tisas uses an "unauthorized reproduction" of the Novak cut.
