Karl from KGB customs has shared this beauty with us. A Swenson Commander.
A great photo of the Swenson installed S&W revolver adjustable rear sight. You can see the extra lug added to keep it in place and the last initial of the original owner.
Karl from KGB customs has shared this beauty with us. A Swenson Commander.
A great photo of the Swenson installed S&W revolver adjustable rear sight. You can see the extra lug added to keep it in place and the last initial of the original owner.
Scattered Shots
If you look closely on picture titled “Swenson usually preferred the factory colt barrels” you can see the round hole Swenson drilled through the slide where he put in the pad we’ve talked about before which controlled the vertical rise on the barrel (and also would push the barrel hood into tighter lockup on the right hand side).
The problem with mods like this is what you see right there in the picture: The metal used in the pad and stud doesn’t quite match the allow used in the slide. On blued guns, this is one of the reasons why I really don’t like welding where you can see the weld area, because the filler metals one can get easily usually don’t match the base metal, and when you finish off the weld, polish it up, it looks just fine in the white. If the weld was done well, you can’t see the weld boundary when the gun is polished in the white.
But when you blue it, you often find you can’t get the color of the blueing to match between the weld and the base metal.
With chrome plating, you find that the chrome takes on a slightly different reflective nature as light reflects off chromes on different steel alloys in a very similar way – which is why you see the stud of the pad above there.
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Looks a lot like my dad’s I need to get him to put it back the way it was, so I can get some glamour shots of it one of these days. (tried a few years ago but they came out so terrible i just tossed them)
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you Dad has a Swenson?
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2 actually. they were his match guns until he got his Wilson. I snapped some shots but the angles were bland, lighting sucked and some were a little out of focus. I was trying to do it in 5 minutes in a closet so just scrapped them. Eventually I want to redo them and do them justice.
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all these fucking years and you are just now telling me your dad has two swenson guns. choke yourself
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I told you like 3 years ago haha
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no you didnt fucker
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The secret to getting good photos of firearms is a light box and indirect light. You can make a light box out of any larger carboard box and white shelf paper…
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He has a pro take photos for him when he does picture of his own custom guns. the ones like this he gets in through his gunstore to sell he does himself
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yeah the light is key. ill redo it eventually. just need to do another trip out to his state (and get him to put the original parts back on)
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