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Unread 12-28-2011, 09:00 AM   #11
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Mark,
Wonderful job by Brad. The wood is in great shape. Are you saying that you did nothing to the wood? It's a beautiful gun that certainly won't embarrass your dog. I think Charles E. Gillon was a long lost relative of mine and if you would be so kind as to ship me the gun I will track down his children to verify it's provenance.
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Unread 12-28-2011, 09:10 AM   #12
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Daryl,

Good one!

I did nothing to the wood. I think that Brad has developed his case hardening forumlas and processes to restore guns to a muted finish much like a gun with a couple decades of use. This is a great option for a lot of guns that do not need the wood restored.

If you look at the EH that I posted on another thread you will see a well used gun with a stock head repaired and hidden by Jerry Andrews of the PGCA, but with the original wood finish. Certainly Brad could have repaired the stock but I wanted to give my friend Jerry some work. He in turn treated me very well. If I recall correctly (which gets harder to do with every passing year) I started with only having Jerry repair the stock and Brad redo the barrels. When I saw the redone barrels and the repaired stock I just had to go one step further in the restoration. After all, the gun deserved it! Luckily Brad knew how to re-case harden a receiver so that the resulting colors did not look like the receiver left Meridian yesterday.

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