{"id":17388,"date":"2014-01-16T03:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T08:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=17388"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:35:09","slug":"cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns12.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-17239\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns12-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cabot Guns12\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns12-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns12-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns12-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns12.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cabotgun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\">Cabot Guns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cabot Guns makes 1911s with aerospace precision.\u00a0 Their pistols are tighter than tight. They guarantee that the slide to frame fit is 0.001 of an inch or less.\u00a0 Cabot has made what is a one-of-a-kind Damascus 1911.\u00a0 President and CEO Robert\u00a0Bianchin said it might be the toughest task they have taken on to date.\u00a0 The Damascus steel that was provided by Chad Nichols, a pattern welded steel maker popular with jewelers and blade-smiths, is extremely hard and is a challenge to machine.\u00a0 It is even harder to work with when you are trying to hit Cabot\u2019s standards.\u00a0 And if the stainless Damascus isn\u2019t enough to look at, the gun is dressed up with mammoth tooth grips and titanium coated parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns18.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-17245\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns18-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cabot Guns18\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns18-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns18-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns18-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns18.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns002.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-17228\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns002-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cabot Guns002\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns002-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns002-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns002-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cabot-Guns002.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>Cabot also has an interesting mirror image pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/search?keyword=1911%2040%20cal\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\" title=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\">1911s<\/a> they are calling The Left and The Right.\u00a0 Each pistol has scrimshawed ivory grips that depict famous people from the liberal left and the conservative right.\u00a0 The left has President Obama and Piers Morgan while the right has President Bush and Ted Nugent.\u00a0 The detail in the scrimshaw work by Darrel Morris can be appreciated by people from both sides of the isle.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Cabot Guns, if you haven\u2019t already.\u00a0 They just might be the pinnacle of the 1911 market. 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They guarantee that the slide to frame fit is 0.001 of an inch or less.\u00a0 Cabot has made what is a one-of-a-kind Damascus 1911.\u00a0 President and CEO Robert\u00a0Bianchin said it might be the toughest task they have taken on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":17236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,36,84],"tags":[],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-me","9":"category-reviews-pistols","10":"category-shot-show-2014"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014 -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/cabot-guns-special-1911s-the-1911-becomes-an-artists-canvas-shot-show-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cabot Guns Special 1911s: The 1911 Becomes an Artist\u2019s Canvas\u2014SHOT Show 2014\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cabot Guns Cabot Guns makes 1911s with aerospace precision.\u00a0 Their pistols are tighter than tight. 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