I comes from Sweden
I havbe maybe bought totally 10 frames from Les baer (1911 frames) .
Those are forged, I don't remeber exactly but at least half of those was cracked in the dustcover.
New frames crackes.
When fine poliched the looks like wood in the structure cause the structure is SO course.
It's normally not possible to see the steel structure with the eyes, but in this case it is.
The majority of american 1911 parts that we bought that was investmencast have problems, parts as beavertails, safetys, paraordonance frames, caspian frames etc.
Those problems are often really annoying porositys.
The design will not fall due to one small porosity but I get bloody mad when i find 3-5 small holes within the area I chequering on a pistol.
I also get quite irritated when i find holes in a beavertail that I just finnished finnishing on.
My anger was total when I recived a frame back from harchroming and the hardchrome looked like wood even though I had beadblased it before sending it off to hardchrome.
So in a way you are right just because there is a bunch of bloody holes in my chequering it doesnt mean the design have falled.
But I know for sure that if the frame had been made out of Swedish Uddeholm or German B�¶hler Barstock steel and they had dropped the investmentcasting and forging those problems would NEVER exist.
One of the best producers of pistolbarrels in America is only using Brasilian and Japanese Stainless steel for his barrels as the quality on the American one is to uneven.
During my 8 years as a toolmaker ( mainly making cavitys in plastic moulds where the smallest porosity is totally unaceptable.) I have never seen any such problems in steel.
Best Regards HÃ?Â¥kan Spuhr
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