Cabot Guns press release (with TTAG pics):
Certified Master Engraver Otto Carter’s second piece for Cabot Guns, entitled Sacromonte, shows what a true artist can do with a blank canvas of stainless steel. Its intricate, flowing embellishments take their inspiration from Moorish design, especially the artwork adorning the Alhambra palace in Grenada, the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
“Hand engraving is a painstaking process,” Carter says. “Using a single-point chisel, I cut thousands of lines into every available surface of the Cabot 1911: the slide, slide stop, trigger guard, frame, mainspring housing, safety, grip safety, barrel bushing, magazine release and trigger. I inlaid over seven feet of 24-gauge 24-carat gold wire, and set it against a prismatic background of triangular shapes.”
The finished piece is more than the sum of its parts. Working from freehand drawings, Carter strived to make each element blend into and enhance the whole, creating an engraved gun that’s a journey of aesthetic discovery.
Sacromonte is Carter’s second piece commissioned by Cabot Guns. His previous work, Pandemonium, was hailed as an artistic triumph. Carter says Pandemonium was a breakthrough that enabled Sacromonte’s carefully positioned artwork, avoiding the visual crowding art critics call horror vacui.
Pandemonium opened my eyes to the artistic possibilities inherent in John Moses Browning’s original design for the 1911. The surfaces connect with lyrical efficiency, making it the perfect canvas for my creativity.”
“We’re honored to continue our collaboration with Mr. Carter,” Cabot Guns Founder and President Rob Bianchin asserts. “Sacromonte is a one-of-a-kind piece that demonstrates what a superb craftsman with a clear vision can create. It not only preserves the storied tradition of gun engraving, it creates new possibilities for the future.”
List Price: $50,000
Ya, but .45s aren’t very good for self defense.
If that’s not sarcasm, I would direct you to yesterday’s Daily Digest….
please append a /s to my comment. haha.
Yeah. I heard they pretty much just get stuck in the skin of even the meekest attacker, easily shrugged off. All those combat stories from the old west till modern day are simply made up.
I heard it’s been sold to someone using the pseudonym Wells Farago.
His next carry gun, for sure.
I usually like scroll work but this isn’t my cup o’ tea.
Just like the first gun, Pandemonium, it looks like a sampler with different styles of engraving all over it. If the slide was removed from the frame, you would think they belong to different guns.
Who gives a rat’s ass? Seriously, doing any work on a 1911 is like painting a DaVinci or a Jackson Pollok on the side of a covered wagon.
The substrate was a snore-fest 70+ years ago.
What do you think the odds are of that pistol ever being fired?
If it were in my safe the odds would be 1-in-1. Pretty guns shoot better, fairly certain
I read that somewhere… AND I WILL GRIN LIKE A GOON WITH EVERY SQUEEZE OF THE TRIGGER!!!
That’s not a barbecue gun. That’s a La Grenouille gun.
And those who could afford such a piece might actually be able to get an NYC carry permit too…
Personally, the grips and butt could be better. It looks like a Ferrari body with a 3-cylinder engine. I do like the engravings though.
Yeah… funny to say but it actually looks a little unfinished with those grips and butt. I can really see where they were coming from on this piece though; I rarely like purely decorative things but this is a very very nice safe queen.
The grips and the screws are an embarrassment.
Using Allen-head screws on a 1911 (or a double gun, or a fine rifle) shows a lack of breeding, class and sophistication.
Yup, just looks out of place. I get that more slab-like grip shows off the engraving, but better wood, some polish, and at the very least better screws (engraved) would have been more appropriate. I removed the original grips and screws myself, and I was surprised to see these put on in the photos.
Wow, I didn’t notice until I read your comment. The OSB made me cringe
Meh. For 50000bucks I’d prefer something less classical muslim. You know like animals or pretty girls. Or at leastCircassian walnut grips. I do appreciate the artisrty involved.
How about going full-Caliphate and adding Circassian walnut grips with pictures of Circassian sex-slaves on them?
Shoehorning those stars in there really clashes with the rest of the design. At least he tried to hide them on the underside.
What a Beauty! Eyes of the beholder an all….
You could spend a lifetime embellishing a 1911….and at the end of the day you’d still have a 1911. I yawn in your general direction.
Madcapp please don’t yawn in my general direction, I might have to look at all your missing teeth. ?
Get out your soldering iron and stipple up some art on your Glock.
I kind of agree. I really like this pistol, but the engraving would look better on a SIG P210 or maybe a Cavalry-model SAA.
No kidding. A 1911 is even more boring than having a ’57 Chebby as your ‘hot rod’. Please wake me when you get something resembling taste….
Nice gun…. for a rich guy to wear to a Sunday morning open carry breakfast…..
Better the rich guy buys this instead of some douchey liberal art
douchey liberal arts purpose is to launder money, at least I hope so.
Guns like this are antiques in the making. Although it does need to be an authentic expression of a value or period in time. I don’t think this really qualifies, as has been said it is too heavily muslim influenced and is a 1911, far divorced from spanish culture. It’s engraving needs to be English in origin or at least what would be termed traditional american art.
An engraved glock including the plastic makes more sense, but as it is much more contemporary, the suitable artform is more difficult to choose, i would say something like this linux desktop http://tullian-art.deviantart.com/art/Arch-Linux-Honeycomb-Wallpaper-1280×960-419746623
Since the glock was created by computer 3d modeling.
Cabot lost me at the meteorite gun. I’m waiting on their next gun made out of fossilized dinosaur shit.
Wow, $50k! I admire and respect the talent and dedication it takes to learn and accomplish this feat even if the design isn’t my favorite.
Art in stainless does not compute, for me. Royal Blue background with actual gold and silver, or you can keep it whatever the price.
Depends on the stainless. If it’s Smith & Wesson’s stainless, then it can be nice, but if it’s Ruger’s stainless it will likely come out looking like crap unless you highly polish the factory finish completely off.
You can blue some stainless steels used on guns, esp. the 400-series stainless steels.
It takes effort, tho.
Mr. Carter does some beautiful work.
In other news, Otto carter was kidnapped today by what authorities suspect as cartel members.
“Creating Sacromonte required a steady hand, a practiced eye and four-months of dedicated labor”. Waste of time.
I feel like at this point each time Cabot makes a pretty pistol all we need is the pictures.