Thank you for your honesty.The SP101 that I had was as rough as a cob. The trigger pull was almost as bad as a ratchet clicking.
The finish was pretty beat up too.
I had a lot of time on my hands so I decided that it would be a swell idea to polish the stainless steel until it was like a mirror.
The frames are cast and there isn't a flat surface anywhere on the pistol. A mirror finish is all about light reflection and that's about flat surfaces.
Sanding blocks with progressively finer grits of wet or dry sandpaper finally got me there at just about the same time my fingerprints were erased from my finger tips. Hours upon hours of elbow grease.
While the revolver was stripped down it was only a natural to put a polish on the guts. Then trigger and hammer shims.
When I started it was like an East German dump truck. All of my buffing and fluffing brought it all they up to maybe a Russian dump truck in smoothness.
In the end I realized that I've been a S&W revolver guy too long to appreciate the SP101 for what it is and what I couldn't make it, no matter how hard I tried.