Not so typical GHE? - Page 7

Twoatlow8 · 03-02-2016, 12:10 PM

I think all wavy lines on all Parkers were cut by the machine not "Pressed" in.
If you read the description on how the rib matting machine works it states that it cuts the lines.
They could roll stamp the parker name on the solid or concave rib guns, however with no support on the Vent Rib guns they had to hand engrave it. It also states in the machine description that the name was rolled onto the rib before the matting was cut and there is an adjustment on the machine to stop the lines from cutting the rolled on name.
It looks like they stopped engraving on the later guns to cut costs.

Twoatlow8 · 03-02-2016, 04:41 PM

The curved rib extension tells me the gun went back and had the rib added at a later date.
All the guns that I have seen with a Vent Rib that factory letter have a flat rib extension.

CHE · 03-02-2016, 05:15 PM

Doesn't someone here know who has the original Parker matting machine? If so lets just ask him. and settle the issue of cutting or pressing

Bill Murphy · 03-02-2016, 09:31 PM

There are matting machines out there, in use. Unfortunately, Edgar and I had forgotten that they were cutters, not pushers. It's hell getting old. It is debated whether the first factory vent rib Parkers were built on standard frames or flat frames. If we can put enough early vent rib guns together, we may answer the question. The Valinski Damascus gun is so early and so different from other vent rib guns (at the breech), that I am guessing that gun was made as a vent rib gun. I am also guessing that the McCormack BHE may have been made as a vent rib gun, maybe the first one, because of certain features and items of provenance.