View Full Version : So now I'm thinking a Clark Custom....
BayouGlocker
07-23-2010, 07:06
I live about 30 minutes away from Clark Custom guns, and have my entire life!!! :wow: If I'd have known the quality work he's known for, earlier in life.... Well, I probably never would have gotten a Glock... :whistling:
Anyways, after looking around his website, I'm thinking that I might get a SA GI 1911 to carry for a little while and get used to the platform.... And then maybe send it in to have it turned into one of these....
http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/images/1911/Custom/Img_7539wlogo2W.jpg
Does anyone have the actual experience of shooting and carrying a Meltdown done by them?
http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/meltdown.htm
glock2740
07-23-2010, 07:14
Clark. The old bar of soap melt job. :cool: I've always thought that the Clark 1911's were really cool looking. I'd love to shoot one someday.
Tactical black
07-23-2010, 07:43
That does look pretty nice. :thumbsup:
faawrenchbndr
07-23-2010, 07:43
dAYUMn,.....a bit TOO much melt!
Could have been a sweet weapon. :dunno:
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 10:54
Whoa, that looks like it's made of...
http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/zzplaydoh.jpg
I used to live closer to them than you do back in the late 80's, unfortunately I was a poor college student at the time and couldn't afford anything that they made. I gave one of their smiths racquetball lessons and they took me to the visit the shop a few times. Got to shoot some of their pistols and meet Mr. Clark and Jerry Miculek (sp?).
Great guns although their full melt doesn't appeal to me.
lawdog734
07-23-2010, 11:31
I like it.
BayouGlocker
07-23-2010, 14:19
dAYUMn,.....a bit TOO much melt!
Could have been a sweet weapon. :dunno:
It is an intense melt, but it's really unique. I'm wondering if blued or mat-black would "wear" the melt the same. I've not asked, but it looks like they take a stainless frame and slide and bead blast them?
I used to live closer to them than you do back in the late 80's, unfortunately I was a poor college student at the time and couldn't afford anything that they made. I gave one of their smiths racquetball lessons and they took me to the visit the shop a few times. Got to shoot some of their pistols and meet Mr. Clark and Jerry Miculek (sp?).
Great guns although their full melt doesn't appeal to me.
I am a poor college student!!! So, I'd have to get it done in steps... 1: Buy gun, 2: reliability package, 3: beavertail, hammer, sights, trigger, 4: decide if I really want it melted that far.
But I like it due to it's uniqueness, so we shall see... I'm gunna go in and ask if I they have one that I could see and feel before I ever had one taken that far.
faawrenchbndr
07-23-2010, 16:04
Yes looks to be either stainless bead blasted or hard chrome bead blasted
glock2740
07-23-2010, 16:40
OK, I'll be honest. I don't really care for it. Put a stainless trigger and hammer on it and some Horned Lizards on it and I LOVE IT! :supergrin:
:rofl:
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 16:47
OK, I'll be honest. I don't really care for it. Put a stainless trigger and hammer on it and some Horned Lizards on it and I LOVE IT! :supergrin:
:rofl:
You could hardchrome and throw Horned Lizards on a Taurus and you'd love it. :tongueout:
glock2740
07-23-2010, 16:50
You could hardchrome and throw Horned Lizards on a Taurus and you'd love it. :tongueout:
:animlol:You nailed that one on the head. :supergrin:
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac341/OU1911/HAMMERNAIL.jpg
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 16:57
:animlol:You nailed that one on the head. :supergrin:
http://i914.photobucket.com/albums/ac341/OU1911/HAMMERNAIL.jpg
Although I'm with you. I will probably have LD HLs on every pistola I own moving forward.
KalashniKEV
07-23-2010, 18:06
That thing looks fake as ****.
It looks very .......um.................errrrrrrr..................... "practical".
To be honest, it's a little over the top for me. It would be pretty damn boring if we all liked the exact same thing though.
glock2740
07-23-2010, 18:28
That thing looks fake as ****.
Clark Custom is very real my friend. They make great 1911's and have been for quite awhile and obviously are known for their ultimate melt jobs.
glock2740
07-23-2010, 18:33
http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/company.html
They've actually been around alot longer than I thought. I knew they had been doing the 1911 thing for quite awhile, but this was news to me.
faawrenchbndr
07-23-2010, 18:39
...... obviously are known for their ultimate melt jobs.
I'd say more like "attack of the belt sander" melt job.
I'd say more like "attack of the belt sander" melt job.
You must have read the magazine quotes too :supergrin:. I am not entirely sure that was meant as a compliment.
faawrenchbndr
07-23-2010, 19:00
I like the looks of the Clark, I would just want a MILD, or for them a very slight melt job.
Kinda like the melt on the NEW Kimber CDP's
Clark Custom does great work and all their stuff isn't that extreme either.
I have always been a fan of Sig's SAS pistols. A 1911 with a similar melt job would be nice.
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 19:42
Clark Custom does great work and all their stuff isn't that extreme either.
Everyone has a different interpretation of "extreme". :whistling:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hera_arms_1911_carbine-tfb.jpg
faawrenchbndr
07-23-2010, 19:44
:holysheep:
What is that?! :dunno:
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 19:48
I have always been a fan of Sig's SAS pistols. A 1911 with a similar melt job would be nice.
Me too. Love the .40 229 SAS with some Nils. Hotness.
:hearts:
http://lundestudio.com/photos/p229sas-nill-right-full.jpg
BayouGlocker
07-23-2010, 19:50
Everyone has a different interpretation of "extreme". :whistling:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hera_arms_1911_carbine-tfb.jpg
I want one of those! For my Glock 19... :whistling:
:rofl:
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 19:51
:holysheep:
What is that?! :dunno:
Sort of looks like the forbidden lovechild of a 1911 and a Stormtrooper blaster.
BayouGlocker
07-23-2010, 19:54
Me too. Love the .40 229 SAS with some Nils. Hotness.
:hearts:
http://lundestudio.com/photos/p229sas-nill-right-full.jpg
Very nice... Sig's are definitely classy.
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 19:58
Very nice... Sig's are definitely classy.
Well....most of them are. :supergrin:
http://www.discountgunsales.com/images/P/sig238rainbow.jpg
BayouGlocker
07-23-2010, 20:05
:shakehead:
Clark. The old bar of soap melt job. :cool:
Ivory model.
http://lamyphoto.com/images/soaplg.jpg
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Rinspeed
07-23-2010, 20:58
Way too much melt for me but I must be out of the loop because I've never seen a Clark gun with that much material taken off. :dunno:
Hokie1911
07-23-2010, 21:02
Ivory model.
http://lamyphoto.com/images/soaplg.jpg
:animlol:
KalashniKEV
07-23-2010, 21:03
Clark Custom is very real my friend. They make great 1911's and have been for quite awhile and obviously are known for their ultimate melt jobs.
I wonder if I could bend the slide like superman if I tried?
I'll bet it would just snap.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hera_arms_1911_carbine-tfb.jpg
What does that hold, like... 20 rounds?
Pass... even if stamps were free.
http://www.clarkcustomguns.com/images/1911/Custom/Img_7539wlogo2W.jpg
I like it! :supergrin:
I don't like sharp corners. Besides form follows function.
I like it alot,there on the short list of things I'd like to have,only in 9mm and commander.go ahead and pick one up ,post alot of pictures and give a review.
BayouGlocker
07-24-2010, 10:57
I'll take things step by step, and post pics along the way. Right now, I still don't have the 1911 for the project. Hopefully I'll pick one up in the next couple weeks. Keep and shoot it as is for a month or two so I'll know exactly what I want or don't want to customize. Then, I'll start changing things.
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