Don't sell your tools or your guns! I'm already kicking myself for some I've sold in the last year. Like a NIB Sig p225. What was I thinking. You can find those Rugers everywhere. But I would say sell it before you cut it.
Keep the gun; maybe get some pachmayr grips and save the wood grips; unless someone offers you the deal of a lifetime; or you really need the cash;10 years from now; you will say" I had one of those and traded it away for a I don't remember."