The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Low-rent version

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Woodswalker — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:36:05 +0000

If i can figure out picture posting, I''l put up my matte Nickel Combat Commander...its plain but it works.

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edwardyoung — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:17:41 +0000

I got this off of Gunbroker this year. I think it was done years ago. The hard chrome feels velvety smooth. Nastoff must have seen mine and had to reproduce it. Ok, maybe not. I really like mine, though. You would have to love yours.

For the 1911 fans. (reply)

uncowboy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:42:21 +0000

Steves guns always look like Jewlery! SWEET! J.Michael

For the 1911 fans. (reply)

Charles — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:50:38 +0000

I like it very much, but I would have to install an arched mainspring housing. They don't point right for me, if they don't have one.

Very nice! (reply)

Glen — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:00:26 +0000

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Quality shows and quality lasts - great gun. (reply)

Cherokee — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:48:38 +0000

VVV nice! (reply)

brionic — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:51:56 +0000

I reserve the "Three Vs" for the best, of which this is a fine example.

Holy smoke, a work of art! NTXT (reply)

anachronism — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:17:42 +0000

ntxt

For the 1911 fans.

FOG — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:08:35 +0000

Not the best pic, but it'll have to do...

Custom Combat Commander by Steve Nastoff

Major 'Unseen' Details
• Base Gun DOB/Colt-Factory-Build-Date was in the 1970s
• Hard-fitted Bar-Sto barrel
• 'Swensonesque' barrel positioner opposite ejection port
• Peened-and-lapped slide-frame fit
• Hand-swaged/formed mag well

History ("Nastoff's .45 Shop" and Beyond...)
• The gun is fully-documented
• The hand-written "build sheet" is two carbon-copy receipts long
• The original envelope it was mailed in is postmarked July 1990
• The bill for the work - minus the base gun - was $3363.00 (!)
• The gun was in the collection of the famous pistolsmith, Richard Heinie, for many years

Background Props (L to R)
• Randall #1-8 (ca. 1980s)
• RayBan Shooting Glasses (ca. 1940s)
• Milt Sparks Summer Special (ca. 1980s)

Misc
I changed a few small parts to better suit my taste (trigger, mag catch, MSH pin, grip screws), but of course I kept the originals for posterity.