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Here's an earlier one I did for the same owner. The French cut is a little more obvious in this photo.

Thanks guys!  I don't do a whole lot of checkering, it's tough on the hands, wrists and elbows... but there's nothing I prefer more for a frontstrap treatment.

I just finished this one up. High cut under the trigger guard and checkered at 30 LPI to match the mainspring housing. French border cut on the slide. I refinished in Norrell's moly resin to color match the original parkerized finish. Larger photo here: http://www.guntechtips.com/images/doc-sa-2.jpg

I've been using this one    http://www.orschelnfarmhome.com/pecan-picker-upper/ctl16754/cp60813/si5826906/cl1/   for a few years and I like it better than the rolling nut wizard.   Mine doesn't pick up more than a handful at a time, but it's more easily emptied and can get into tighter spots.    The nut wizard is superior if you have a lot of brass concentrated in one big flat area.

I am on the lookout for one of these, as well as a FNS longslide 9mm.    I'll pick up the first one I see locally but I don't want it bad enough to order it online.

I have found the SR1911 to be a bit oversprung in the recoil spring department and the factory mag spring a bit weak.   My observations are that the slide can overrun the cartridge before the mag can present it to the top.   Swapping in a 16# Wolff spring has helped in the two SR1911s I've owned.   I also lack confidence in the Ruger factory mags since on two occasions, it has squirted the whole stack of rounds onto the ground when I bumped the edge of the mag pouch while pulling the magazine during a speed reload.     I throw them back in the factory box and use either Wilson 47Ds or CMC Powermags which work well in about every 1911 I own.