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Are you still in IL? Anywhere near Quincy? Give Dick Heinie a call and ask him if he can recommend a smith to help you out, or someone that you can bounce ideas off of as you go through the process. Heinie does not build 1911's anymore, but he might be willing to help you get through the process if you get stuck. There is also a lot of online help available to you on the 1911 tech forums. I'm not sure if the websites are still up or not, but Chris at BlindHog used to post a lot of in depth build details as well as a guy whose name I can't remember that built up a pair of Argentine Systemas.