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Posted: 3/28/2010 10:24:36 AM EDT

New frontstrap treatment from Caspian. Not bad for 85 bucks.

http://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?p=2608778

Posted: 3/28/2010 1:39:03 PM EDT

[#1]

I wonder how it actually feels, how it grips, and how it stays in your hand when they get sweaty.

Posted: 3/28/2010 1:52:37 PM EDT

[#2]

I like the looks, not as abrasive as checkering and much easier to keep clean. Need to actually get a feel of it to know If I would like it or not.

Posted: 3/28/2010 2:55:24 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
I like the looks, not as abrasive as checkering and much easier to keep clean. Need to actually get a feel of it to know If I would like it or not.

That's exactly what I thought too. I think that I would like it, but I would like to try it out first.

Posted: 3/28/2010 5:25:08 PM EDT

[#4]

Wish I had known about that before I ordered my receiver

although, for $85 I can get A LOT of skateboard tape that does the same thing and maybe better

Posted: 4/1/2010 10:04:16 AM EDT

[#5]

They're also doing MSH's, cocking serrations, and the tops of slides.

Posted: 4/1/2010 10:08:02 AM EDT

[#6]

Holy feces, that's awesome. Having just finished another 20 lpi checkering job, I'm dreading the next one.

Posted: 4/1/2010 10:11:06 AM EDT

[#7]

It would be less likely to get damaged like checkering.

Posted: 4/1/2010 10:22:57 AM EDT

[#8]

Really? You all like it? I think it looks like crap personally, but then again I don't really like the look of anything other than the typical front strap checkering. Guess I'm just old school like that.

Posted: 4/1/2010 10:42:58 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Really? You all like it? I think it looks like crap personally, but then again I don't really like the look of anything other than the typical front strap checkering. Guess I'm just old school like that.

It looks a damn sight better than scalloping IMO.

FWIW, all my guns are checkered too.

Posted: 4/1/2010 10:43:22 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Really? You all like it? I think it looks like crap personally, but then again I don't really like the look of anything other than the typical front strap checkering. Guess I'm just old school like that.

I too like traditional checkering..more than anything else.

However, I do like that better than the scalloping/fish scale look or the golfball dimpling.

I like the "neat" look with the border.

Posted: 4/1/2010 11:00:04 AM EDT

[#11]

I think it looks ok, but I'd really like to know how it works.

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Posted: 4/1/2010 11:14:12 AM EDT

[#12]

It kind of reminds me of the WWII "pressed checkering" you saw on wartime production guns.

Kinda neat. I like it.

Posted: 4/1/2010 12:26:01 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
It kind of reminds me of the WWII "pressed checkering" you saw on wartime production guns.

Kinda neat. I like it.

Like a buttplate on a M1..

Posted: 4/1/2010 3:47:45 PM EDT

[#14]

Looks kinda like the pattern that Miller Custom was offering.

Posted: 4/1/2010 4:47:17 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Looks kinda like the pattern that Miller Custom was offering.

His was a lot tighter. I saw a couple examples the last time I was at his shop. It's really cool looking and grabs your hand really well without feeling sharp.

The diamonds on this rendition don't look sharp, so I kind of wonder how well it would grab your hand.

Posted: 4/1/2010 6:56:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Stan Chen does something similar IIRC. I like it.

Posted: 4/8/2010 9:58:11 PM EDT

[#17]

I like checkering myself, or stippling, if you can find someone that still does the stippling. It kinda has a random effect and feels about like skateboard tape, whis is what I use. But I am cheap as hell.

Posted: 4/9/2010 7:46:10 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
It kind of reminds me of the WWII "pressed checkering" you saw on wartime production guns.

Kinda neat. I like it.

I thought of the same thing, like the checkering on the arched mainspring hopsuings of earlier 1911A1s.

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