Refinish P7M8

DocAitch · Feb 3, 2015

I have a German P7M8 which was police turn in 10-12 years ago.
It is in good shape but the police marking was milled off with a neat rectangular cut.
I remember hearing that some one sent his P7M8 out to a metal refinishing outfit and had the slide refinished with removal of the milling cut and resharpening/redefinition of the rest of the stampings.
Anyone have any info on such a service?
DocAitch

yellowsled · Feb 3, 2015

Id love to see pics of the mentioned gun.

DocAitch · Feb 3, 2015

I posted photo of milled marking in OP, there are 3 other photos in classified section.
DocAitch

Bob A · Feb 4, 2015

Park Cities Tactical used to be the go-to place for P7 info and trading. Site was down for quite a bit and lost a lot of followers, but there's still good info there and people with extensive background info. You might want to take a look around.

http://www.parkcitiestactical.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/forum_summary

amoebicmagician · Feb 4, 2015

DocAitch said:
I have a German P7M8 which was police turn in 10-12 years ago.
It is in good shape but the police marking was milled off with a neat rectangular cut.
I remember hearing that some one sent his P7M8 out to a metal refinishing outfit and had the slide refinished with removal of the milling cut and resharpening/redefinition of the rest of the stampings.
Anyone have any info on such a service?
DocAitch

HOLY SHIT!

Is that what the scratch is? Milled off the police stamping?

Man, I had one years ago and I could not figure out how such a small and perfect scratch appeared on the gun in that one area. It did not look neat, it looked like a perfectly rectangular scratch.

You'd think they could at least make it look like machining.

And what is that purple finish? Is that on all Police P7s? I had never seen another plum P7 until now.

rico903 · Feb 4, 2015

Bob A said:
Park Cities Tactical used to be the go-to place for P7 info and trading. Site was down for quite a bit and lost a lot of followers, but there's still good info there and people with extensive background info. You might want to take a look around.

http://www.parkcitiestactical.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/forum_summary

I used to spend a lot of time there but it went down as you say. Plus it was loaded with HK fan boys who could not tolerate anyone questioning or posing a problem with the PSP's.
There were 2 places that did the mark removal and would chrome the guns. Tripps was one, can't remember the other and one of them stopped doing it. I never had the money at the time to get mine done. One of the places was also applying a black finish.
Now I need to get back on site, or try, I suddenly had a problem with accessing it and never went back.

rico903 · Feb 4, 2015

amoebicmagician said:
HOLY SHIT!

Is that what the scratch is? Milled off the police stamping?

Man, I had one years ago and I could not figure out how such a small and perfect scratch appeared on the gun in that one area. It did not look neat, it looked like a perfectly rectangular scratch.

You'd think they could at least make it look like machining.

And what is that purple finish? Is that on all Police P7s? I had never seen another plum P7 until now.

P7's turning plum with age is very common. I have a gun exactly like the OP's , mark, plum and all. Also have a P7 PSP. The one shown is a P7 M8. Most accurate guns I own.

DocAitch · Feb 9, 2015

I looked at the park cities site and found a reference to Ford's Guns. Under the section "Services" is a link "Our Milling Service".
In that they have pictures of a P7M8 which had similar grind mark removed and the the pistol was finished in brushed chrome.
Interestingly, the area that was ground off was a picture of the Statue of Liberty.
DocAitch

rico903 · Feb 11, 2015

You got, it Fords. IIRC they will grind the slide and redo any markings so it looks right. The German guns didn't have a statue of liberty on them. If you do follow thru with this I'd like to hear how it goes as I am still thinking of having mine done. The hard chroming just looks so nice and they will do the mags also.

DocAitch · Feb 19, 2015

Rico,
I think that the Statue of Liberty would have been one of the departments in NYC. I believe that some CONUS departments used the P7M8, New Jersey comes to mind.
There is no hint of what was on my slide.
I have a sale pending to one of the MDS members, I will let him know of your interest.
I believe that he intends to send the pistol to Fords.
DocAitch

antco · Feb 21, 2015

The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island are operated by the National Part Service and protected by US Park Police who carried the P7M13 with a few P7M8's up until the early 2000's. That pistol is very likely a USPP trade-in.

DocAitch · Feb 22, 2015

antco,
Thanks, that fills in the blanks.
DocAitch

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