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Unread 04-02-2017, 11:46 PM   #1
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Hello all, I've been deposed by work and medications. I'm out of the loop on who does colors on Damascus barrels. Brad Bachelor is in the game and does fantastic work, Doug Turnbull does as well. Craig Smith of Circle Fly Wads once did, but can't find anything on the web for him and Damascus barrels nor for Keith Kearcher. It my understanding that Dale Edmonds has hung up is apron. Any help would be appreciated on who is doing colors on Damascus.

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Harry,

You have named the ones we hear about most often however, there are others that few of us know about.
I would think that Dr. Drew Hause has a list of the more obscure ones.






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Keith Kearcher's barrels come out with an English brown tone to them, not a B/W color and I think he is retired too.
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Keith's nephew has taken over the business.





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I was sorry to hear that Dale Edmonds retired as he did a great job on two sets of barrels for me. Brad B seems to be the other go to guy.
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Thanks friends,

The reason I ask is I am going to start doing barrels. Mike Franzen spoke with Dale Edmonds and gathered his method, but is to busy with his enterprise to do barrels. Mike had gone to the trouble of gathering much of what's Dale told him. I have purchased this from Mike and am in the process of collecting the rest of what is needed. I have three sets of barrels at present, but I doubt I will have anything ready to show at the Southern.

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Good luck, Harry!
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Unfortunate to lose Dale, but there are lots of artists doing beautiful pattern welded restoration today Harry. Scroll down to the bottom here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...g51u_SnEM/edit

It is important to note that some do "browning" exclusively, and "black & white" would reproduce the original Parker (and the U.S. maker's) colors.

A nice example of the original D3 colors under the forend



Kody Kearcher is Keith's nephew and was at the Vegas show in Jan. He said he hopes to start doing "black & white" but does not as yet.
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Thank you Drew,

I am confident I can eventually come very close to Dale's colors. I have thrown all my eggs into one basket on this venture in hopes of having a home business that will keep me off the streets and out of the pool halls.

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