You already found the answer. Time is money, money is saving by not doing a follow up polishing.
Colt is not the only company that does that.
Colt is not the only company that does that.
I was all set to buy the military reproductions until I saw the awful-looking raised lettering. That ruined them for me. I agree with the observation that it was penny wise and pound foolish. It also indicates a philosophical problem at the decision-making level of not understanding why someone would want to buy these guns.That's my one complaint with my WW1 carbonia repro.
I was all set to buy the military reproductions until I saw the awful-looking raised lettering. That ruined them for me. I agree with the observation that it was penny wise and pound foolish. It also indicates a philosophical problem at the decision-making level of not understanding why someone would want to buy these guns.
From what I understand the rollmarks are applied after final polish and before bluing. Do they save that much by not doing a quick polish to even out the letters? Many of the new guns (autos and single actions) look like the marks were pressed into mud. The gun below is Colt's top of the line auto 'from the Custom Shop.'
Perhaps Colt's way to address this was the recent elimination of rollmarks on most of the 1911 style guns.
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I was thinking the same thing. I like it.Hey there weagle99;
I like the heavy/sharp roll-mark on my Colts because it's just one good way of determining whether or not the firearm has its original finish. I like it because it equates with newness, and for real, "NIB".
Just my opinion.
Bud
Are you looking for any additional family members, and if so, are you still giving out Colts? I need a way to get more without spending anything...I gave my Son & Son-in law each one of my Colt 1905 re-creations
Thanks for volunteering but when I develop a procedure that works, I stick to it till I can figure out something to improve it. Thinking about something for my twin G-Sons, vets of Iraq & Afghanistan, but they're going to school now in NY state.Are you looking for any additional family members, and if so, are you still giving out Colts? I need a way to get more without spending anything...
Thought the same thing...but the serial number looks like the ones applied by Century International to imported surplus arms.
One advantage of the raised-edge Lettering, is that if one is ever in a real pinch, needing to grate some hard Romano or Parmesan Cheese, one could do it on the Texts of the Slide.