Professional is a reletive term.
 

Check out this auction I just came across...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...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.

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

That I have heard.

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:

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.

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

Good one Ed. !

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.

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

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