fake damascus barrels

[charlie cleveland]

I ve been told this gun has fake Damascus barrels no I did not believe them at that time...but the next fellow that tells me this I might believe him...passed up a 10 ga greener because of this....don t really know why because I ve always shot what I wanted to in these dangerous barrels and never worried about it.....charlie

[Breck Gorman]

Years ago, I took a Damascus refinishing class out in Colorado at Trinidad State NRA summer session taught by Mark Beasland. There were about 15 Students who brought about 35 barrels to work on that week. We brought project guns that we could afford cheap to learn. One of them was Belgian faux Damascus. Mark said that one or two show up every year he teaches a class.

http://firearmshistory.blogspot.com/...s-barrels.html

Here is a link to a succinct explanation of how they were made. Cheap iron tubes. Some of these clunkers still survive.

[Drew Hause]

Breck: the person (who also posted on Shotgun World but refused to identify himself) who posted that blog borrowed the explanation and images from my PictureTrail (now defunct ) and website (which costs me money to maintain), linked earlier. I got many of my images from gentleman here, or had to find them on the internet, and early on didn't do a great job of documenting the sources. Many contributors asked to remain anonymous.
An attribution would have been nice, but I'm not selling anything, and the information is free.

[Breck Gorman]

Had no idea. Forgive me.

[Drew Hause]

No problem Breck. As said, I'm only interested in collecting and saving information and not selling anything.