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Unread 07-28-2013, 01:14 PM   #11
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Dennis: lots of smiths have harvested old Damascus barrels, or purchased Belgian tubes from Peter Dyson http://www.peterdyson.co.uk/acatalog...S_BARRELS.html
Again, to my knowledge no one, other than Steve Culver, has manufactured a new pattern welded barrel in this country.
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Unread 07-28-2013, 03:45 PM   #12
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I'm probably wrong, but I thought that I'd read that Greener was making some new guns with damascus barrels from some old stock of barrels that they had.

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W.W. Greener produced new shotguns with damascus barrels in 2007-2008
From http://www.wwgreener.com/Shotguns.htm
"Barrels - are made of the highest quality steel and bored to maintain the famous choke boring improvements, made by W W Greener in the 1870s, to optimise shooting performance, and to ensure patterns of shot guaranteed to meet customers' exact requirements whether for game, wildfowl or clay pigeon shooting. A few pairs of guns are being made with interchangeable steel and Damascus barrels."


Courtesy of Vic Venters (Dec. 2008), who wrote an article in the Sept/Oct '07 issue of Shooting Sportsman regarding the Greener guns:
"They are indeed newly made damascus barrels, built on vintage tubes that David Dryhurst -- Greener's master gunmaker -- has been collecting since the '60s and '70s. Some are old Greener stock, some are English and no doubt some are Belgian. A few of these sets came from Dyson...They are not lined. The guns are being made in 28-ga up through 12, and maybe in 10-ga. At least 25 of these damascus-barreled guns are made or are under way, and I believe more have been ordered since I last asked. At the time of my writing, none had failed English proof. The guns are proofed under standard CIP pressures per the particular gauge.

Most are on sidelocks; some are on reintroduced "G-Guns" -- Facile Princeps actions with Boss ejectorwork. Greeners are a small best maker -- but demand has been so great that I am told they have again closed their order books. They were the last British maker to manufacture their own damascus tubes, and are the first to again offer them in commercial quantities."
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Unread 07-28-2013, 04:52 PM   #14
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Drew,

We could both be half right. If you check out Bowen Classic Arms, then to Workshop, they to both Sedgley 45 Vaquero and also Damascus Barrel Single Action Army both display Damascus barrels which are not from an old shotgun barrel. On the SAA Bowen says it is a steel liner within a Damascus shell barrel. The handgun I saw from Ross Seyfried years ago had, I believe, a totally Damascus barrel but I have not been able to find the article.

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Unread 07-28-2013, 05:28 PM   #15
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http://www.bowenclassicarms.com/work...usBarrelSAArmy
"This particular gun started life as United States Firearms Single-Action Army model in .45 Colt. The composite damascus barrel sports an overlay of English gun tube material..."

1916 patent with a similar idea; fluid steel barrel within a Damascus sleeve

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I have three damascuss fixed blade knives. They hold an edge very well and will unzip a deer in no time Galazan offers some very nice ones as does our own Paul Harm from LaPeer. I have two of his knives and couldn't be happier with them....unless I had another one
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Thats some interesting information.. and yeah it appears that people are starting to understand and want Damascus again.. which is pretty cool i think..
I'm new here but the more im learning the less i am afraid of them.. and can thank the people here for there knowledge and assistance with that..
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New Purdey hammergun with vintage 3 Iron Oxford tubes, offered by Griffin & Howe in 2013.

"The Damascus barrels are proofed for 2 3/4" modern smokeless loads."

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I want one.
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Drew, I talked to Steve Culver today. He told me his current equipment would limit the maximum length of any Damascus barrel he could build to a maximum of about 12 inches.

I don't know if there is enough time to get a new Damascus auto and burglar built before the Spring Southern but, One of Ithaca's 1922 advertisements said " With it the average person can hit objects thrown in the air easier than with the regulation shotgun fired from the shoulder."
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