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Joe Chambers

Joe Chambers

Owner and Custom Pistolsmith at Chambers Custom LLC in Crete, Nebraska, specializing in handmade 1911-style pistols.

Aug 20, 2026

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62:46
Any door, the right support.
62:51
let's see, it's been 10 years now, 10 or 11, maybe, but at least 10, I decided I was having problems buying grip safeties from the place I normally bought them because they were too thin at the top.
63:09
And what had happened was the company that was making them, their molds had gotten old so that when they, when they, um, produce them, the grip safety was too thin at the top side.
63:22
And so you had to actually blend the frame here underneath the thumb safety to the grip safety.
63:29
That was a serious pain in the ass.
63:31
So I sat down and I started working with a machinist friend of mine named Andrew out of Chicago, Illinois.
63:38
And to make a new grip safety.

1 HR 22 MINS LATER

145:23
Was this done, just speaking of it as a style of gun, was this done so well in the beginning or have we been too lazy to make it better? Or is it just not needed? Like, does that question make sense?
19:15
Those are all know conversations you don't have at every bank you just don't
19:20
know no and and honestly there's i mean i've taken some wild hair brained ideas into him and he's like i don't i don't see how that pays Okay, skip that.
19:36
All right, let's move on.
19:37
And then I've taken some wild harebrained ideas into him.
19:40
And he's like, wow, you really believe you can do this? Yeah, I do.
19:43
I believe it 100%.
19:44
Okay, well, let's do it.

41 MINS LATER

60:40
And obviously you saw, you know, how much of that farm was luck?

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