JEM offers an alloy Commander frame and you can choose to skip the ramp cut.
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I didn't feel like engaging in a debate about the efficacy of Cerakote but since you've broken the ice let me weigh in.
Based on my experience with an aluminum frame in the mid-1980s, I completely agree with you. All of my aluminum frames are anodized for a reason.
Others swear up and down that there's no need to anodize an aluminum frame or at most just paint it. All I can say is you pay your money, you take your chances.
In addition to anodizing I highly recommend fitting a steel feed ramp insert in aluminum framed 1911s that don't have ramped barrels to prevent damaging the frame feed ramps. I put them in all my aluminum 1911s. If nothing else, they provide me with peace of mind knowing that they will prevent the kind of damage I experienced long ago that resulted in a pistol that would not even feed FMJ much less JHP ammo.
Excellent point. If I was building without a ramped barrel I would want a feed ramp insert.I didn't feel like engaging in a debate about the efficacy of Cerakote but since you've broken the ice let me weigh in.
Based on my experience with an aluminum frame in the mid-1980s, I completely agree with you. All of my aluminum frames are anodized for a reason.
Others swear up and down that there's no need to anodize an aluminum frame or at most just paint it. All I can say is you pay your money, you take your chances.
In addition to anodizing I highly recommend fitting a steel feed ramp insert in aluminum framed 1911s that don't have ramped barrels to prevent damaging the frame feed ramps. I put them in all my aluminum 1911s. If nothing else, they provide me with peace of mind knowing that they will prevent the kind of damage I experienced long ago that resulted in a pistol that would not even feed FMJ much less JHP ammo.
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The only alum frames I have built on have been ramped 9mm barrels.
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