Start with our ideas. Finish with yours.
Build an Ed Brown 1911 around the way you intend to use it—and the details you want to live with for years.
Choose the foundation, controls, sights, finish, grips, and individual details. The configurator keeps the choices and current pricing together in one place.
Freedom without guesswork.
A useful custom pistol is not a random collection of options. It begins with a proven Ed Brown foundation, then changes where your intended use, preferences, or sense of proportion call for something different.
The configurator explains the available choices as you go. Use an established model or a past build for direction, then combine the details into a pistol that is recognizably yours.
Build from the inside out.
The form presents each choice in sequence and provides additional guidance wherever the tradeoffs deserve explanation.
Choose the foundation.
Begin with frame material, caliber, slide length, frame treatment, and slide configuration—the decisions that establish the pistol’s basic character.
Set up the gun.
Select the safeties, controls, trigger, sights, barrel, and recoil system around how the pistol will be carried, handled, and shot.
Make it yours.
Finish with coating, grips, slide treatments, engraving, and details such as the Ed Brown Bobtail® or magwell configuration.
Know the purpose. Let the details follow.
You do not need every answer before opening the configurator. It helps, however, to begin with the role the pistol will serve.
- Decide whether the priority is carry, general use, hard use, or exhibition-level finish.
- Use each “Help Me Choose” explanation when a choice is unfamiliar.
- Watch the calculated price as options are added or changed.
- Use the Special Instructions field for a request the listed options do not fully capture.
- Submit the completed configuration for Ed Brown review.
Configure your 1911.
Work through the selections in order. The running price reflects the choices made in the form; the submitted configuration will be reviewed before the build proceeds.
We review the complete configuration.
Custom Build brings the choices together. The next step is making certain those choices work together as intended.
Start with a gun that already speaks to you.
Browse historical models, commemorative work, and earlier Ed Brown configurations for ideas—or choose a completed in-stock pistol when the right configuration is already waiting.