Happiness is a new gun 2

Yankee Marshall put up a video on the gouging that's going on with the SA-35. In his words, "it's disgusting".

Man I thought I was paying too much when my fave lgs went from 25 up to 30 for a transfer! That’s all I do with them there though as their prices on everything else is too high. I’ll occasionally buy a small part from them, as they are super nice and I kinda feel bad when I’m just doing those transfers. I either get my guns off of Florida Gun Trader (private sales/purchases/trades), pawn shops and occasionally from Gunbroker. All of the local gun stores are charging too much. I get it that they are running a business and need to pay the bills, but when I can get it elsewhere for less if I’m patient then I do.
Sounds like he’s really hooking you up on that one though!

I can’t listen to that Yankee guy. His voice bothers me.

I’m amazed that it took this long for a modern firearms manufacturer to bring back the Hi Power pistol…..It is a beautiful, timeless design and probably John Browning’s best pistol ever being a perfected 1911 with higher capacity and an improved trigger it’s everything you could ask for in a blue steel and wood pistol……Why FN quit making them in 2017 I’ll never know but I am very happy that Springfield has brought back an improved Hi Power to the market again and I simply must have one……Good luck Colonel bringing one home!

I read that the tooling was worn out.

So because I like to set factory grips aside I decided to take the CBob's factory grips off my Guardian, and found a set of somebody's else's factory CBob takeoffs online. Compared to the color of my CBob grips as seen in post #136 above, this set is darker and much redder. I like them about as much as the lighter CBob grips on the black gun, and in fact this is the color I was looking for when I bought a couple of sets of "red" G10 grips for it awhile back. The G10 grips didn't come nearly as red as these.

I'll make a note of this, if you like red I got some stuff called military stock stain and it's red, real red.
That Wenge wood probably wouldn't take it and change much since it's pretty dark but others would be real red.

Is it possible to restain G10 Colonel?

I honest am not certain. I've not worked with G10 very much. I would think it would take stain. The thing I don't like about most stain is it's like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get.
Even on the same kind of wood etc, one can turn out gorgeous and the next ready for the wood stove.

If you want me to try this stuff on your G10 I'm happy to try. I'm not sure it can even be gotten anymore. Fortunately me and a coworker bought a whole quart of the stuff to refill my little bottle. He still has the quart, he loves the stuff.
He was a dept sniper and had a couple wood rifle stocks I refinished with it and he loves it.

Sent you a PM Colonel. Let's do it!