Professional is a reletive term.

[Brian Dudley]

Check out this auction I just came across...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=291529856

Would be a very nice gun. 20g. VH And the no reserve at $1,450 start would normally guarantee a sale. But no bids.

Beautifully professionally restored.

I see... Wood gaps, proud metal, a trigger plate that is not fully seated, no checkering, non period recoil pad, pitted action, blued action and a lot of off-timed screws.

I guess professtionally restored is a reletive saying.

[Rick Losey]

professional just means you get paid for it - it doesn't mean you are good at it.

[Brian Dudley]

That I have heard.

[Forrest Grilley]

My favorite quote from the description: "THE WOOD IS BEAUTIFUL WITH A NICE EVEN GRAIN. SINCE THE STOCK AND FOREARM TURNED OUT SO NICE IT WAS DECIDED NOT TO CHECKER THEM."

I would have to agree, I don't know why everyone is so insistent on covering their stocks with all that ugly checkering. :rotf:

[Brian Dudley]

I can tell you most deffinately. That gun would graduate to a good looking at 10 foot away status if it was checkered.
Maybe it was decided to leave it bare because no one knew how to checker it.

[Ed Blake]

The restoration appears to have been done by Joan Rivers' plastic surgeon. Who knew?

[Brian Dudley]

Good one Ed. !

[Mills Morrison]

At least it wasn't a "certified" restoration. That means the person sat through a 6 hour class and paid a fee for a certificate.

[Jay Gardner]

Like how ther small marks were left on the receiver before re-bluing. Nothing says quality restoration like a blued Parker receiver.

[charlie cleveland]

blue beats painting them with rubberized house paint.... charlie

[Brian Dudley]

Or duracoating.

[Chris Travinski]

Once I spent about 3 hours making a set of floor plate screws for my DHE, I got them nice and tight, thin slots, flush with the floor plate all around. I sent them to a "master engraver", a week later and $40 I threw them in the trash can. I'm pretty sure they were engraved with an awl.

[Mills Morrison]

Speaking of floorplates, I am going to need a floorplate for a DH 10 project gun I recently acquired. How hard are those to come by?

[Mills Morrison]

Speaking of floorplates, I am going to need a floorplate for a DH 10 project gun I recently acquired. How hard are those to come by?

[Brian Dudley]

They pop up every now and again. Along with complete / semi complete actions. There was a group of 10g. parts offered on Ebay about a month ago. Can't remember if a floor plate was part of it.
Put out an APB on here and see what you come up with.
If you are grade specific your search will be a bit harder. And parted out D grades are most likely less prevelant than lower grades.

If you can find one from a lower grade for a reasonable price, you should look into what it would cost to have the engraving on it redone in D grade style. I am sure many of us here could refer you to some fine engravers.

[Mills Morrison]

Thanks the gun is being shipped to me as we speak. Will post more details when it arrives. Some people operate animal shelters, I operate a gun shelter, apparently.

[Larry Stauch]

Sometimes these posts are better than reading the Sunday Funnys.

[Mills Morrison]

Right. New rule, if you see a vintage gun on Gunbroker and there are handguns or assault rifles in the background of the pictures and no other vintage guns, run, don't walk.