If you are into handguns long enough, your favorite will be changing....
Right now I'm building 1911 Project Frankenstein, .45ACP
Caspian Government Race Ready Recon Stainless receiver
picatinny rail
integral magwell with open front
arched mainspring housing
20 LPI checkered frontstrap
integral plunger tube
beavertail radiused to Ed Brown spec.
feed ramp and bridge machined to Nowlin/Wilson spec
bead blasted
Caspian Government Damascus slide
reverse plug cut
ball radius to match frame
flat top
bead blasted rounds
polished flats
French border
slanted serrations front and rear
glock style front sight slide cut
sight cut in rear slide set forward to protect blade
Nowlin Mfg. 5" ramped match-grade bull barrel
matching link, link pin
Sights
Bo-Mar Combat BMCS rear sight with tritium bar
Truglo TFO front sight
Esmeralda Grips
Cocobolo Dorado, smooth finish
Ambi safety cut
Slotted screws
Smith & Alexander SS Arched Mainspring
20 LPI checkering
Lanyard loop
Sprinco Recoil Reducer
Caspian type full shouldered reverse plug
Wolff Recoil Spring
Ed Brown Parts
Series 70 SS Beavertail Grip Safety with Memory Groove
Wide SS Extended Safety
Stainless Magazine Release with Stainless Oversize button
Light Magazine Release Spring
Competition Mainspring
HD Firing Pin Spring
Hardcore Sear Spring
Extended Ejector
38 Super Caspian Type Firing Pin
Hardcore SS Firing Pin Stop cut for Bomar sight
AFTEC Extractor
EGW High Quality Drill Rod Pin Set
STI Parts
Titanium Hammer Strut
Titanium Mainspring Cap
BCP Carryguns Ignition System
Hammer
Sear
Disconnector
Dlask trigger
Wilson Bulletproof stainless slide stop
Smithing
Plasma nitride case harden receiver
CrN finish internals and barrel
Serrate slide top 40lpi
Checker rear of slide 40lpi
Tune trigger to #3.75
Shave right side of safety to 1/8" and blend both sides
Recrown barrel 11 degrees
Polish breech face
Chamfer&polish forward edges of barrel locking lugs
Chamfer firing pin hole on breech
Polish feed ramp, throat and chamber barrel,
Tune extractor and polish bolt face
Undercut trigger guard
Locktite grip screws (blue)
Blend rear of slide to frame
Flare ejection port
Conservatively dehorn
Hand fit all parts