{"id":32736,"date":"2022-12-28T19:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32736"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:21:01","slug":"cylinder-slide-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=32736","title":{"rendered":"Cylinder &#038; Slide To Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2465,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/CylinderandSlide\\\/posts\\\/pfbid07vK4pEw3F3cGqjF7igH2Ge7ba46PFTJPZ7y6xKAHA2hvEgaBEJFWri86m6iV5iERl&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/login\\\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCylinderandSlide%2Fposts%2Fpfbid07vK4pEw3F3cGqjF7igH2Ge7ba46PFTJPZ7y6xKAHA2hvEgaBEJFWri86m6iV5iERl&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2466,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/americanpistolsmithsguild.com\\\/pistolsmith-of-the-year&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2467,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/americanpistolsmithsguild.com\\\/find-a-member&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2468,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/cylinder-slide.com\\\/articles&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260416010249\\\/https:\\\/\\\/cylinder-slide.com\\\/articles&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 01:57:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 16:17:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 16:17:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2469,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/CylinderandSlide\\\/posts\\\/pfbid0fJxHYv7r6GHBfqdDdvkSyLVJGevWUHf2oD3vQqqJAWvowQ7KZCAnEx6mxfQiLT97l&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>It was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CylinderandSlide\/posts\/pfbid07vK4pEw3F3cGqjF7igH2Ge7ba46PFTJPZ7y6xKAHA2hvEgaBEJFWri86m6iV5iERl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced on Facebook yesterday<\/a><\/strong> that Bill Laughridge had decided to close down Cylinder &amp; Slide after 44 years and retire. Bill was the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanpistolsmithsguild.com\/pistolsmith-of-the-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2005 Pistolsmith of the Year<\/a><\/strong> which was awarded by the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/americanpistolsmithsguild.com\/find-a-member\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Pistolsmith Guild.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Cylinder and Slide would like to announce that after 44+ years of business, we are ceasing operations. We would like to thank our countless customers and fellow industry partners for all their support and assistance throughout all these years.<\/p><p>We do have quite a bit of inventory, fixtures, equipment, factory parts, etc that we would like to move. If you have any potential interest, we are accepting email inquiries only; info@cylinder-slide.com. There is too much list at the moment, but we are generating lists of what we have.<\/p><p>Please congratulate Bill on being able to finally retire!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I only got to meet Bill once and that was at last year&#8217;s Dallas Safari Club Convention. He was working on one of the new Springfield Armory SA-35 Hi-Power clones. He gave me a few minutes of his time to talk to me about his impression of this pistol. It was good, by the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Innumerable articles have been written about the custom pistols that have come of that shop. Here is a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cylinder-slide.com\/articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link to a few <\/a><\/strong>of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CylinderandSlide\/posts\/pfbid0fJxHYv7r6GHBfqdDdvkSyLVJGevWUHf2oD3vQqqJAWvowQ7KZCAnEx6mxfQiLT97l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement <\/a><\/strong>notes that guns that are in process will be finished. For those that have a deposit down waiting for custom work, the deposit will be refunded. They suggest going to the American Pistolsmith Guild (see above link) to find a pistolsmith if you need custom work done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best wishes to Bill for a happy retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-5.png 473w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-5-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced on Facebook yesterday that Bill Laughridge had decided to close down Cylinder &amp; Slide after 44&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":24,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5924,6281,6282,3485],"class_list":["post-32736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-laughridge","tag-custom-pistolsmith","tag-cylinder-slide","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32738,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32736\/revisions\/32738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}