ACW Unplugged Part 1: Hand Fitting an Alchemy 1911 Frame and Slide

Don’t worry, Eli will be back on the socials very soon. Nick was recently at our Facility in Ft Wayne where we make the pistols for both Cabot Guns and ACW and he spent a day with our team of talented Gunsmiths at ACW following them around with a camera to watch how they take high-quality oversized 1911 parts all made in the USA, and hand fit each one of them together to make these tight fit 1911s that we consider to be functional works of art.
Now, we won’t be showing the entire process for a couple of reasons… the first is that it would take about 20 hours to follow a blued gun from start to finish and that would be a very long video, and the second is that… well we gotta keep some of the magic for ourselves. However, this is a pretty raw dive into the process behind building our pistols…. No soft music or fancy slow motion or marketing… just our talented gunsmiths building guns and talking about it along the way.
So we are calling this series ACW Unplugged. For part one, we are starting at the beginning with some parts prep and some frame-to-slide fit and blending with Brant. Now like we said…. This doesn’t cover the entire process from start to finish, because that would take a few hours to show the whole process, but you’ll begin to see the amount of time and craftsmanship that go into each and every ACW. Enjoy.