A Screw Job...
 

We often see requests for screws to replace buggered ones on Parkers (and wondering why they don't fit properly) or complaints on the cost of having screw correctly made and fitted. Attached are some photos of Parker trigger guards screws for a DH being made from from scratch from bar stock by Russ Bickel and fitted, engraved, hardened and blued. A lot of work...but a job done right...

Thanks for the enlightening pictures Don.
Is that Geoffroy's engraving?

Yes, we use Maitre Gournet for all engraving. Russ does do the odd screw head or touch up now and then but he has not launched a career as a latter day Wm. Gough as of yet...:shock:

How did he blue the screws? Rust, nitre, fire blue? Very nice indeed.

The screw head engraving Russ is capable of is pretty good, he did one for me on a DHE and it looked fine.

Destry

Russ is bluing 6 trigger guards and screws for me at the moment. One Ithaca NID 10g Mag, one 20g Pieper hammergun and 4 Parkers. I used Andy's charcoal blue method for years. After his business' meltdown, we used to batch them up and send them to Turnbull for nitre blue. It was well done and very economical but I was never happy with the electric blue tint of some of the guards. Russ does a special polish job on them and hot blues them. They come out quite nice and they look very much like what I consider the "correct" nitre blue and no one has ever questioned their "correctness"...but then most folks don't really know, do they? I guess Russ and I being Model 21 men at heart don't mind "modern techniques" when restoring 'shooters"...

I am very eager to see the blueing job Russ did on my Titanic barreled DH. Just one and a half weeks from now. :)

I am sure you will be pleased. We'll be there on Saturday.

Don, somehow I seem to miss you at some venues. Please stop by at my table at the PGCA tent or suggest another location where we can meet and say hello.

Will do. When I stop by at a show to look for you, you are invariably holding one of your well attended seminars on "The Basics of Bottom Feeding for Advanced Accumulators" or "Proper Storage of Never to Be Restored Restoration Projects, Part II" :)