Professional is a reletive term.
 

Check out this auction I just came across...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=291529856

Would be a very nice gun. 20g. VH And the no reserve at $1,450 start would normally guarantee a sale. But no bids.

Beautifully professionally restored.

I see... Wood gaps, proud metal, a trigger plate that is not fully seated, no checkering, non period recoil pad, pitted action, blued action and a lot of off-timed screws.

I guess professtionally restored is a reletive saying.

professional just means you get paid for it - it doesn't mean you are good at it.

That I have heard.

My favorite quote from the description: "THE WOOD IS BEAUTIFUL WITH A NICE EVEN GRAIN. SINCE THE STOCK AND FOREARM TURNED OUT SO NICE IT WAS DECIDED NOT TO CHECKER THEM."

I would have to agree, I don't know why everyone is so insistent on covering their stocks with all that ugly checkering. :rotf:

I can tell you most deffinately. That gun would graduate to a good looking at 10 foot away status if it was checkered.
Maybe it was decided to leave it bare because no one knew how to checker it.

The restoration appears to have been done by Joan Rivers' plastic surgeon. Who knew?

Good one Ed. !

At least it wasn't a "certified" restoration. That means the person sat through a 6 hour class and paid a fee for a certificate.

Like how ther small marks were left on the receiver before re-bluing. Nothing says quality restoration like a blued Parker receiver.

blue beats painting them with rubberized house paint.... charlie

Or duracoating.

Once I spent about 3 hours making a set of floor plate screws for my DHE, I got them nice and tight, thin slots, flush with the floor plate all around. I sent them to a "master engraver", a week later and $40 I threw them in the trash can. I'm pretty sure they were engraved with an awl.

Speaking of floorplates, I am going to need a floorplate for a DH 10 project gun I recently acquired. How hard are those to come by?

Speaking of floorplates, I am going to need a floorplate for a DH 10 project gun I recently acquired. How hard are those to come by?

They pop up every now and again. Along with complete / semi complete actions. There was a group of 10g. parts offered on Ebay about a month ago. Can't remember if a floor plate was part of it.
Put out an APB on here and see what you come up with.
If you are grade specific your search will be a bit harder. And parted out D grades are most likely less prevelant than lower grades.

If you can find one from a lower grade for a reasonable price, you should look into what it would cost to have the engraving on it redone in D grade style. I am sure many of us here could refer you to some fine engravers.

Thanks the gun is being shipped to me as we speak. Will post more details when it arrives. Some people operate animal shelters, I operate a gun shelter, apparently.

Sometimes these posts are better than reading the Sunday Funnys.

Right. New rule, if you see a vintage gun on Gunbroker and there are handguns or assault rifles in the background of the pictures and no other vintage guns, run, don't walk.