Nice on buying the chrome version of the t-100 and swapping out the parts to go for a two-tone on both.
I have the t-120 and am thinking of getting the t-100 in blued. Not sure I want to do the part swap for two-tone though.
AFAIK the T-100 is only available in black. The guns without the Tristar branding (just 'Canik 55') have the other finishes available. That's paint on the frame- I was explaining somewhere above that I had made an attempt to polish the frame, but found the factory stuff just too hard to work with. It was difficult getting the black off...pretty damn solvent resistant (tried everything but aircraft stripper...that stuff is nasty) and most any form of abrasion will scratch the aluminum. 220grit sandpaper was as brave as I got, and that will still be scratchy enough to make polishing quite the lengthy process. Blasting with some kind of fairly aggressive media is probably the only good option. The irony is that the whole reason I decided to try polishing was because the factory finish already had chips and I deemed it 'not durable.'
But even worse, once you get the black coating off, there is some kind of chemical process (or so I assume) done to the aluminum that makes it yellow and dull, and I'm suspecting that MUST be abraded away by hand. Like, you've gotta really remove metal. So I gave up, smoothed everything out, and used the closest thing to a generic 'satin nickel' that I could find at the auto parts store. It's VHT caliper paint. Didn't come out flawless, but pretty acceptable looking. Baked the pistol frame in the kitchen oven to cure it, heh. Ghetto Duracoat.
After all my fucking with it, I shot that gun again today, and it remains absolutely flawless. And
so goddamn accurate. I do not have very steady hands, and today was not one of my better days in that respect...could still shoot an easy 6" group at 20 yards. Hell, I even managed to hit a bullseye twice in a row...any inaccuracy with that gun is DEFINITELY in the shooter and not the weapon.
More importantly, the Kahr thing...very, very good experience with the gun shop. They saw what I saw, basically echoed the 'what in the shit is this shit,' and immediately said they would exchange it. They blamed the supplier (apparently a middleman between them and the actual manufacturers)...I can't remember the name, but I heard an 'I bet we got that from such-and-such' and then later a confirmation of the guilty party. I'm guessing they've had issues with someone before; nothing like this, though. I may have been responsible for their first ever accepted firearm return, heh.
If anyone needs a gun shop/range rec in Tennessee,
Nashville Armory get's an A+ from me. Gun prices are about as good as you can expect, range prices are very reasonable. And they sell NEW ammo cheaper most ranges sell shitty reloads. And said range is pretty goddamned nice.
They didn't have another CW45, though. Offered to order one, but I took a CW9 instead. I carried it and the T-100 over to the range along with 200 rounds. I verified the Kahr was fairly clean (should still have cleaned it first, but meh). Also of note, I remembered as I was leaving...I never oiled the Canik after I put it back together. Still. Damned. Flawless.
The CW9 shoots good for what it is (...small, long trigger)*. But it makes the Canik feel like a .22 target pistol. But I was having issues when I tried to dump full mags (...to test...surely not just for fun...:sneaky. Halfway through, I'd get a failure to recock the striker. Seems most attributable to limpwristing...but I
really don't think I was limpwristing. I intentionally locked in my arms/wrist/grip WAY too tight just to test, and I still got the misfeed. Wondering if it was the ammo. We'll see if it fixes itself after I clean it and get a few more rounds through it. Never had this issue with my CM9.