New for 2017 at SHOT from Cabot Guns’ Sacromonte Pistol

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- Looking for something unique? Here’s another one-of-a-kind pistol on display from Cabot Guns at SHOT 2017, booth 508.

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

Creating Sacromonte required a steady hand, a practiced eye and four-months of dedicated labor.

“Hand engraving 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.”

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