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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 01:43 pm |
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I found this gun on the 'net on Leroy Merz' website and once again foolishly decided to rescue it. It is a 30" D grade top lever hammer on a #1 frame built in 1887. I have a few D grade hammers but wanted one on a #1 frame. When this gun arrived it was clear the reason the barrels had no pitting...the bores were .760+ almost a 10 gauge. The walls were thin...and covered in dents...The stock had been hacked to 12 3/4" lop over a DHBP...the fore end though in tact had been used to drive fence posts...the action however was tight and virtually pristine with a bit of color left...I had a set of very early GH barrels, #1 frame 30" full/full and in excellent untouched shape sitting in the barrel cabinet. They were a close fit so off to Russ Bickel and the hammerless barrels were fitted to the hammergun. The triggerguard was lengthened and up to the Old Stocker it went. It's back now with a modest piece of California juglans regia on it. Tomorrow it goes back to Russ for guard screws and some minor other items and then the guard goes to Maitre Gournet...Hopefully it will go to Argentina in July for a duck hunt. In honor of the last keeper, I put a repro DHBP on it Practical for the blind...I hope the poor quality photos are of some interest to you...Attached Image (viewed 695 times):
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 01:46 pm |
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| More, decent doll's head fit. Donor barrels appear to have original finish... Attached Image (viewed 692 times):
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 01:48 pm |
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| Stock... barrels need to go the Mr. Edmonds at some point... Attached Image (viewed 687 times):
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 01:49 pm |
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| Fore end with "optional" full checkering pattern... Attached Image (viewed 685 times):
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Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 01:51 pm |
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| Note barrel lug(s) conversion... Attached Image (viewed 674 times):
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 04:37 pm |
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| Pretty nice D Don! Can we get a better look at the water tables? A rather odd milling machine cut that surface?? Last edited on Fri May 29th, 2009 04:37 pm by Dean Romig
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 05:10 pm |
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| Just back from Maitre Gournet's shop where I picked up the damascus barrels for my Chas. Smith ejector hammergun. GG picked up the address on the rib and some of the fancy breech engraving. It must just be the lighting Dean but I see what you mean. The watertable of 48, 817 is unremarkable (as the pathologist says...)when viewed in hand and appears standard issue Parker. Here's a photo of the Charles Smith 12 bore ejector about the same age as 48,817....if it were a Parker it would be a AA...but alas it is not... Attached Image (viewed 600 times):
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 06:02 pm |
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| Oh, okay. It must be, as you say, the lighting. Thanks Don.
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 06:14 pm |
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That looks like the cut made by an old style metalworking machine that I believe was called a shaper. Obviously, I could be wrong because I'm not a machinist by trade. My training was as an Industrial Arts teacher. I remember a course in Basic Metalworking and Machining where they had this machine that made a horizontal cut by pushing a tool bit across the work surface and shaving off metal, then the table would traverse over for the next horizontal cut. FWIW.
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 06:25 pm |
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| Here's the last one of 48,817 showing the barrels lugs and extended trigger guard with its slave screws... Attached Image (viewed 598 times):
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 06:49 pm |
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| Is that a Galazan trigger guard or independantly fabricated?
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 07:05 pm |
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| Original PG guard lengthened...note engraved bow... Last edited on Fri May 29th, 2009 07:05 pm by Don Kaas
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Posted: Fri May 29th, 2009 07:08 pm |
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| The engraved bow is what lead me to surmize it might have been (independantly fabricated) lengthened.
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Posted: Sat May 30th, 2009 04:14 am |
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Dean,
Russ Bickle is the King of Parker Trigger Guards, he can really make them look right.
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Posted: Sat May 30th, 2009 06:25 am |
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Don, how is that lug conversion performed? I haven't seen that done before.
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Posted: Sat May 30th, 2009 11:35 am |
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Jim- Basically, the hammerless front lug is cut, cocking hook discarded and the newly machine center lug for the hammergun (which only is a barrel stop) is soldered in...the rest is standard barrel fitting...micro welding the hook if needed and blacking the barrels down. Russ has constructed a jig to fit Parker barrels. Sounds simple but it's a complex job. Luckily, Russ passed Geometry in school...
Destry- Russ' triggerguards are correct because he took the time to make a jig from a reall Parker straight guard so all subsequent jobs come out the same. Lots of gunsmiths just make them "by eye".
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Posted: Sat May 30th, 2009 11:58 am |
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Thanks Don; this gun puts the introduction of that style of high grade hammer below 50000. (See this issue of Parker Pages)
There was a long discussion of that frame hatch with many comments by Oscar, several years ago. Many early DH (in the first few hundred hammerless) guns have it, sometimes crudely hand done. I have two; 56553 and 56568. It is most frequently (from that discussion) a cross hatch. Most of the guns we found it on were the first non rebounding hammer DH's, and we proposed it warned later repairmen of unusual parts. Those early hatched DH also have a dog, rather than 4 birds on the floorplate. Since then we have found it on the barrel lug, rather than the frame of some high grade guns including the Czar gun.
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Posted: Sat May 30th, 2009 01:50 pm |
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| I could have sworn Don said it was a trick of the lighting and the water table is standard issue, non chased. Whatever, it's a heck of a gun. When is Russ going to tackle a hammer ejector Parker conversion?
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Posted: Sun May 31st, 2009 02:25 am |
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Is that a joke Bill? How can an ejector differentiate between a fired hammer and an uncocked hammer?
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Posted: Sun May 31st, 2009 04:43 am |
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Wow. Thanks Don. And no, it doesn't sound simple at all. Having done a little barrel work, to me it's danged impressive. I was wondering how he got the original lug off because it is all brazed together rather than soldered. I think I see now how he did it without having to un-braze (?) it all. I know anything like this CAN be done, but am very impressed that someone can do it at a price that is even thinkable (I'm sure it wasn't cheap). Thanks for sharing and explaining - I have now learned of another option that I'd never considered before.
If you get the chance, it would be very interesting to see close-up shots of the lug conversion. I'm still a little shocked!
Jim
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