I have another post running currently called "My first kit build," and in that thread I share pictures and a description of a problem I'm having with a Pendersoli pistol kit--their Kentucky model. The trigger guard that came with the kit wouldn't fit, and the slightest attempt to slowly bend (post-heat) snapped it in half. It was then that I learned that this is a very common flaw in this particular kit.
Dixi Gun works replaced the trigger guard with a second one that they bent in their shop to fit. Apparently this happens so often that DGW has a new agreement with Pendersoli that all of their new pistol kits should come with the guard pre-installed to verify that it fits. But I digress...
The replacement guard that DGW works sent me fit well, but unfortunately it was a bad cast and is completely hollow around the front screw hole. I'm sure that it wouldn't hold up once installed, or with the slightest bump would shatter. I emailed DGW again with pictures and I expect (hope!) they will send a third one, hopefully one that they take a closer look at before shipping it to me and verify that it's a reasonably good one.
Nevertheless, I'm wondering if there are alternatives that I could look into that would fit this particular kit? I'm not talented enough to begin to re-carve my stock, so I'd need something that would fit the kit. I suspect this is a "fat chance" kind of proposition, but figure this is the place to ask.
Any of you builders make brass trigger guards, and happen to have a recent Pendersoli Kentucky kit on hand that you could use as a template?
Dixi Gun works replaced the trigger guard with a second one that they bent in their shop to fit. Apparently this happens so often that DGW has a new agreement with Pendersoli that all of their new pistol kits should come with the guard pre-installed to verify that it fits. But I digress...
The replacement guard that DGW works sent me fit well, but unfortunately it was a bad cast and is completely hollow around the front screw hole. I'm sure that it wouldn't hold up once installed, or with the slightest bump would shatter. I emailed DGW again with pictures and I expect (hope!) they will send a third one, hopefully one that they take a closer look at before shipping it to me and verify that it's a reasonably good one.
Nevertheless, I'm wondering if there are alternatives that I could look into that would fit this particular kit? I'm not talented enough to begin to re-carve my stock, so I'd need something that would fit the kit. I suspect this is a "fat chance" kind of proposition, but figure this is the place to ask.
Any of you builders make brass trigger guards, and happen to have a recent Pendersoli Kentucky kit on hand that you could use as a template?
