Very nice, congrats.

good looking pistola.

Congrats on that nice looking Springfield and your first 1911, pitor! They're like Lays potato chips, you know. Nobody can have just one and you'll crave more. :D

Guess what. I just learned about something called the idiot scratch, but after the fact i scratched the side pretty badly. Did i mention this is my first 1911?

Well, that certainly sucks ! :( Not that it helps any but there's plenty of those floating around out there.
With it being stainless hopefully it can be corrected (polished out) fairly painlessly. Post a pic when you can.

And make it a Dirty Pic! :D

http://www.cotep.org/forum/picture.p...&pictureid=888

PM sent Pedro.

Nice Pistola Sir, ' bout time you got your "ahem" wet. :p

Don't worry about it, it happens to all of us. This is how you learn anyhowz

I do plan to polish the scratch out as best as I can. I'm going to used mother's Polishing Compound. I wonder if I should polish by hand or with a power tool like a Dremel?