Yeah, not pretty. If it's causing problems, you could take a small pillar file and remove it. Keep an eye on that area to see if it throws up any more burrs like that and keep it well lubed. At one time, DW 1911s were known to gall between the slide and frame. I was told that they had switched vendors for their forgings for slides and frames, and the vendor screwed up the alloys. They were supposed to make the frame and slide from different stainless steel alloys, but they didn't. This is done to eliminate galling. I dunno if this is true or not, but it's what I was told.

 

no problems at all

 

Which gouge are you referring to? The 1) ”s” shaped? Or 2) the other gouge roughly 1/2 below then”49” in the serial number on the edge of the channel.

I don’t believe there is a specific nomenclature for these areas but I would refer to the “s” shaped area as the disconnector rail and the other as extractor channel. But I’m interested to hear if there is are specific nomenclatures for these areas. As for your second question I would not expect these to cause any functional issues.

 

I thought he was referring to the gouge in the disco cut..?

 

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I'm not sure i would worry about that

 

The circled divot looks, to me, looks more like peening ... Or something got dropped on it. Kind of an odd place for that to happen, though.

With two other things also called out in the first couple of posts, though, I would think about giving DW a call, especially if this is a new or new-ish one. One little machining glitch isn't great, but three on the same slide would make me start to wonder about what I haven't yet noticed, if that makes sense.

 

There looks to be only one defect. The S in the disco rail is there to denote that this is a stainless steel slide. If it were carbon there would be a C instead. The numbers are the serial number of the frame so that the two can find their way back to one another during fitting and finishing. It looks like the first two digits of the serial number are 16 which would mean this is a 2016 model.

 

Related?? Did DW do the disco cut in the slide? Or was that done third party?

 

No disco cut was done

 

Here is another photo

 

But ... but ... they're "hand fitted!"

 

Just to rule something out, is it a 9mm and are you using Wilson magazines?