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 The Custom Gun Shop can assist you in designing and creating your one-of-a-kind heirloom, providing an array of options. Using the enclosed diagrams, indicate the location for the inscription, engraving, or inlay that you want on your firearm. Select the amount and style scroll engraving; your personal design, figure and inscription; the material you want to use for any inlay; and your choice of finishes. Select grips are also available.
Design your own competition gun with many custom options: barrels and slides, sight systems, hammers, triggers and trigger guards, safeties, magazines, grips and finishes. The Custom Gun Shop will fine tune and accurize your competition gun for ultimate performance.
 ENGRAVING COVERAGE
Custom engraving can enhance the beauty of a historical revolver or the sleek lines of a new semi-automatic pistol. Level A provides one quarter coverage, producing the effect of delicate embellishment, while complete coverage at Level D creates a uniquely decorative showpiece for any collector. Level B and C offer engraving coverage that might highlight specifically chosen areas of the firearm such as the cylinder of a revolver or the barrel of a pistol.
STYLES OF ENGRAVING
The Colt Custom Gun Shop offers several styles of engraving, each with its own unique features. Scrollwork is adapted to fit the size, shape and contour of every firearm. Three grades of engraving are offered: Standard-basic American style, engraver not recorded: Expert--master quality scroll work, engraver signed and recorded; and Master--intricate scrollwork with precious metal inlays, signed by the engraver and recorded.
 AMERICAN:Developed in the mid-19th century, this is the most popular engraving style for American firearms.
 ENGLISH:English engraving is more delicate than the American style, with tighter scrolls and finer shading.
 NIMSCHKE:Nimschke is named for the firearms engraver who helped create the American style. This design features rich scrollwork, a heavily punched dot background, fine edge curls and delicate borders.
CUSTOM GRIPS AND ACCESSORIES
Offered in the Colt Custom Shop are custom grips made of several materials including Walnut, Rosewood, Ebony, Mother of Pearl, Buffalo horn, Ivory
and North American Elk. Hand checkering in a plain (not shown) or double diamond pattern are also offered. Special edition grip medallions may be requested and produced in accordance with your specifications, including choice of metal, finish and decorative motif or symbol.
HISTORY OF ENGRAVING
 Sam Colt began a heritage of elaborate embellishment and engraving of firearms that continues to this day, setting the standard for custom firearms finishing throughout the world. In the 1830's, when Sam Colt invented the first practical revolver, he recognized the value of an exquisitely embellished firearm. Colt employed some of the finest engravers and craftsmen to decorate deluxe presentation pistols created for foreign dignitaries, monarchs and military officials. In 1839 Colonel Colt hired Waterman Ormsby, the creator of "cylinder scenes", one of the most distinctive features on Colt revolvers. Beginning in 1854, Colt's reputation for producing functional and beautiful firearms was enhanced by the artistry of Gustave Young, Carl Helfrecht, L.D. Nimschke, and other craftsmen whose skill and expertise he justifiably relied on. Custom engraving and other decorative touches brought an aesthetic quality to a machine-made firearm that not only enhanced the appearance, but the overall value as well. Today, the Colt Custom Gun Shop continues the tradition of custom engraving that helped to earn Sam Colt well deserved reputation.
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