Tracking down old markers

[latches109]

My minimag I purchased just after they were released in 1992?. stolen from my trunk decade later. I coper plated it. Looks like this one Doc posted. I've never seen another coper plated one.

[Walker]

This one.... It was a one off custom.....

[DocsMachine]

My minimag I purchased just after they were released in 1992?. stolen from my trunk decade later. I coper plated it. Looks like this one Doc posted. I've never seen another coper plated one.

It's not actually copper- that's Titanium Nitride. That's my own personal Minimag- or was, at the time- that I paid what was at the time a relative fortune to have plated. That would have been back in 1996.

(Fun story- that photo was taken on 35mm film, as digital wasn't a thing at the time- and there was literally no one in town, that I could find, with a scanner so I could post a photo of it online. I mailed the photos to Bill Mills, of WARPIG, since I was so often on his TechTalk board, who scanned them for me, and then returned them with the scans on a 3.5" floppy. )

Anyway, the coating was kind of uneven- the plater was an industrial shop, no one was doing TiNitride cosmetically back then- and actually kind of dull. It looked like mildly-tarnished copper in real life.

I eventually polished it all off. I still have the valve in one of my Mags, the barrel (a turned down TASO) is probably still in one of my boxes, but the body got polished and traded off or sold at some point.

Today, you can of course have TiN done cosmetically, and it can look like polished gold. (The two gold 1911s Nic Cage had in Face/Off were Ti-Nitrided.) I'm not sure you can have aluminum plated- it's applied in basically a plasma spray- but I'm surprised that I never saw anyone else try that on a 'Mag, in all the years since.

I've always wanted to do another one, but that's just one of hundreds of "always wanted to do" that I've never gotten around to.

Doc.