Sorry meant to post this in Gun Projects and clicked the wrong forum. Hopefully I can figure out how to switch it.

 

Question: If it has been cured and you discover a flaw can you return it to bare metal for another try?

 

I just did that exact thing. Took a little work, but it came put clean and ready for the next try.

 

Not a FDE fan, but you did a nice job. Looks good, and it looks like a bit of work..
Well, done..

 

How are the tolerances/fitment during reassembly?

 

I took the FDE paint off after getting the tip of my glove in the spray pattern. The photos I included show the spots.
Take 2 I went with a combo of gray under matt black.
Then distressed the whole mess after curing to show the lines of the slide cuts. It looks like exactly what I wanted.

 

I made sure I cleaned out the screw holes, removed the paint, polished the breech and cleared the area for the pins and extractor. No fitment issues so far.
This slide never functioned right, this is more of art project than an actual shooter. I've shot a 1000 rounds from this piece of ****, spent countless hours working on his junk and bought every spring, striker and extractor I could find. I can count on one hand the number of full mags I went through. Always 10-20% light primer strike failure every time you rack the slide. It looks cool, works like junk. From what I've found on the internet, the extractor pin hole is off center causing the failures.
Again, these were surplus parts I used as a test.