General 1911 talk
. . . . . . IRON BARBIES that is . . . . .
I mean, what other inanimate object do we have that we "dress up", "change shoes", accessorize (holsters, magazine carriers, range bags), belabor over finish color / treatment, agonize over "skin care" (FP-10, SLP, Break-free, Hoppe's, Eezox, FrogLube...