Hawk - Regarding bobbing the hammer on your S&W. You have a hammer that is case hardened carbon steel that has been hard chromed. When you bob the hammer, to make it all match, you'll have to have the hammer hard chromed again. When you do that, you have to do the action work after the re-hard chroming.
To do the hard chrome right (and let's home it's only done right), the existing chrome has to be removed, so you don't have tolerance stacking. Removing chrome is a PIA and they will charge for that.
You may find it cheaper to pick up a case hardened hammer for a blued K frame, and then have the work done with that hammer installed in the gun.
