** Update – I am not currently taking in 1911 work right now.

Prices are for work on current production Gov’t or Commander Model Colt pistols (or other approved pistol). If you don’t see something on this list feel free to contact me for additional info. Prices are subject to change.

1911 Service Price List:

Top of Gun:

1. Mill slide for Novak style sights and drill front sight roll pin hole (front and rear) – $175
2. Machine front dovetail on slide – $65
3. Drill roll pin hole for Novak front sight – $35
4. Furnish and install Novak style white outline night front sight (on already milled slides) and drill roll pin hole – $85
5. Furnish, install and hand contour Heinie plain black serrated rear sight with “ledge” – $175 (includes parkerize refinish)
6. Machine rear Novak cut – $85
7. Ball cuts on slide – $125
8. High Power cuts (“carry cuts”) – $125
9. Furnish and install / tune new bar stock extractor – $75
10. Furnish and install bar stock firing pin stop with small cam radius – $45
11. Match barrel bushing fit hand tight – $50
12. Kart precision gunsmith fit barrel – $395
13. Kart precision “X-act” fit barrel – $325
14. Throat and polish Colt barrel – $50
15. 11 degree crown and polish muzzle – $50
16. Machine GI cocking serrations on slide – $115
17. Machine cocking serrations Gold Cup style – $135
18. French border – $125
19. Surface grind off roll marks – $125
20. Flat top slide – $95
21. Flat top slide and serrate – $135
22. Lower and flare ejection port – $85
23. Flare ejection port – $35
24. Surface grind bevel on bottom of slide – $85
25. Hand blend rear of slide and frame – $50
26. Hand serrate 40 lpi rear of slide – $85
27. Machine 3 “blood grooves” on top of slide – $135

*Prices for machine work does not include refinishing services.

Bottom of Gun:

1. Furnish, install and custom contour EGW bar stock (or other high quality) grip safety Bullock Custom style – $315. *Note – a new thumb safety will often be needed and may require refinishing of frame – see pricing below. 
2. Furnish, install and custom contour bar stock EGW or Wilson bullet proof or other high quality thumb safety with positive “on/off” click -$95
3. Trigger job 4 – 4.5 lbs crisp (includes hard sear, customer supplied Colt hammer and disconnector – in some cases hooks are surface ground to .021″ depth) – $175
4. Furnish high quality hammer (Koenig, Wilson or Colt), hard sear & disconnector with 4 – 4.5 lbs crisp trigger pull – $250
5. Furnish and install solid aluminum trigger (custom contoured – short, medium, long, curved, semi-curved or flat) – $75
6. Surface grind Colt or existing hammer hooks to .020″ – .021″ depth – $35
7. Bar stock ejector installed, tuned and fit to back of slide/frame – $50
8. Install new plunger tube – $35
9. Restake plunger tube – $25
10. Hand bevel magwell area of frame – $95
11. Furnish, install & hand blend standard checkered one piece S&A magwell – $200
12. Fit and hand blend one piece S&A magwell –  mainspring pin hole drilled for specific frame then custom golf ball (MARs or Rogers style), scallops, serrations or snakeskin applied – $325
13. High cut and true front strap with smooth front strap (no front strap texture) – $225
14. Golf ball front strap – MARs or Rogers style (includes high cut under trigger guard)- $325
15. Scallop front strap (includes high cut under trigger guard) – $325
16. Snakeskin front strap (includes high cut under trigger guard) – $350
17. Serrate front strap with straight ends and high cut – $250
18. Serrate front strap arrow pattern with high cut – $250
19. Furnish and install steel or aluminum mainspring housing with golf ball, scallops, snakeskin or vertical serrations – $125.
20. Complete dehorn all sharp edges and remove tooling marks on pistol – $150
21. Furnish and install extended, angled and hand checkered 40 lpi mag catch – $65
22. Hand serrate front of trigger guard – $75
23. Machine feed ramp to proper depth and 31.5 degrees – $65
24. Machine bow tie relief in VIS (on pistols without relief)- $55
25. Countersink slide stop hole in frame and flatten/contour slide stop pin – $65
26. Flatten and chamfer slide stop pin – $35
27. Machine out stuck grip bushings – $40

*Prices for machine work do not include refinishing services.

1911 Finishes:

1. Fine glass bead finish on stainless pistols (satin look) – $85 (includes removing dovetailed sights, cleaning and reassembly) – (add $95 for complete detailing of stainless pistol (i.e., removing and polishing out tooling marks and other clean up of metal).
2. Cerakote complete 1911 handgun (1 or 2 colors) – $275 – Includes detail strip and evaluation of weapon prior to cerakote and reassembly of sights, grip bushings (bonded in), ejector (bonded in), polish feed ramp and barrel throat.
   • (NOTE: many 1911 pistols I cerakote often need mechanical/reliability work done prior to cerakote in order for weapon to function reliably – to me, there is no sense in cerakoting a pistol unless it is running properly first)
3. Manganese Phosphate (black parkerize) 1911 pistol – $175

Other Cerakote Services: 

1. AR-15 Rail Systems – $75
2. AR upper receiver or lower receiver – $90
3. Handgun barrel – $35
4. Handgun Magazine – $20
5. Glock, M&P slide only – $85
6. 1911 Handgun receiver – $95
7. Rifle barrel – $125
8. Small parts – minimum $50 charge
9. Other projects – prices on request

Glock Machine work:

1. Vertical front cocking serrations (milled around roll marks) – $125
2. Lightening cuts in slide – $135