From 1911_purview

Thus Colt fighting gun built by Dave Severns. Dave, who began gunsmithing in the late 1970s, was a hard hat driver and engineer by training. A self taught pistolsmith, he was known for producing a series of internet ” shootout articles” in the early 2000s where he evaluated and tested high performance 1911s made by other custom shops and mfgs. His custom pistols were largely built on Dan Wesson and Les Baer base guns and were cloaked int he company’s ” hard hat” finish a form of ferritic nitrocarburizing much like Melonite.