Well the Colt arrived home on the noon stage, and it looks WONDERFUL!!. Another thing I like about Bearcoat is that they do their shipping with Fedex. The gun, as I said, looks brand new. It's stainless and always felt "rough"when I would rack it or even inserting or removing a magazine. Now everything just seems to glide. The gun was in good shape before, but had several dings and scratchs. The worst was where the slide release dragged when you released the slide. All of these imperfections are gone. The matte black is perfect, and looks so much better than it did in stainless. Esme is ecstatic! the grips are fairly light colored and show up much better with the darker finish than they did with the stainless. I will get pictures tomorrow, I promise. Meanwhile, true love has triumphed, happiness ever after, and various other soap opera cliches are appropriate. I'll wind this up tomorrow. Gene