Rib Art
 

I get a kick out how beautiful some Damascus ribs are. None of this recent batch of barrels to refinish were Parkers unfortunately, but I wanted to show the quality original workmanship revealed by the refinish.

Beautiful Breck.
More examples here
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21182597

Parker D4 with a Washington rib

http://pic20.picturetrail.com:80/VOL.../405985028.jpg

Very nice. I think the chain pattern is one of the nicest but all of the above are beautiful.

Well done Breck!

Wow...just...wow!

Amazing what they could create in Damascus!

Well Done!!

Breck refinished this set of 12 gauge, 1-frame Bernard barrels for me a few months ago. I’m very pleased with the result and the rib is outstanding!

The rib is almost irridescent as it reflects light differently as I change the angle I’m holding it at.


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Wow it looks like you have the process down pat. Those are gorgeous.

clearly a masters work....charlie

Stunning. I look at this and truly see art. My wife on the other hand...

Couple more

The bottom rib on a set of barrels Breck did for me a few months ago.

Attachment 95323

Attachment 95324

DH bottom rib

I'm jealous of that last one!





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Top rib on this 10g Parker-made laminated barrel is no slouch, it the bottom rib takes the prize.

Very nice Breck!
Is that Art’s gun?





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I would never get to shoot that turkey for looking at those gun barrels...charlie

Yes. They are being delivered tomorrow (knock on wood).

Top rib of a Lefever 16g.

Bottom rib of a Parker 8g.

What incredible variety. :shock:

Wow those are really some attractive barrels there Breck, makes me want to go out and pick up a damascus barreled gun.... :-)

Breck

How would you catgorize this rib as to source and pattern?

Seems to be a laminate probably sourced from Belgium. Much too late a gun to be Parker USA made. Hard to say. On Damascus ribs that I’ve had to strip and relay, there was a “D” stamp on the underside. Maybe this one has an “L” stamp.

That's a beautiful Laminated rib. Enlarge the picture by double or triple clicking on the picture. You will see the 'weld line' waving through the length of it between the ribbands., Very nice!





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that's some fine rib patterns...I would never get to shoot any thing for looking at those ribs.........charlie

New member but have been lurking awhile; here's another example from top and bottom ribs of a 1910 DHE 12 gauge.

https://parkerguns.org/forums/attach...1&d=1654023960
https://parkerguns.org/forums/attach...1&d=1654024051

Syracuse Lefever

That second picture makes me think of my lava lamp from the 1960’s.






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What grade lefever is that on? And what era or manufacture, serial range?

Those are spectacular 3 Iron Bernard I tubes, and I've only seen a single example on a Lefever; a C grade.

Drew, Sara Lefever has a set she had made into a lamp. Unfortunately they had been cut to something like 22 inches but they were a special set of barrels having been made expressly for, and the rib engraved as such, to a surname familiar to most Lefever collectors, one F.A. Elliott.
Breck Gorman refinished them.

See the thread titled Lefever Lamp.




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I own a Lefever C 10ga with 30" Bernard Barrels. Circa 1887. It also has a Laminate bottom rib! Serial number 9874.

I have my barrels scheduled to go to Breck on June 1. They are B grade barrels from my recently acquired D grade Lefever.
Per Dr Drew the a 4 Iron Turkish.
Can't wait to see the results

can t wait to see those barrels phil....and that's a nice lefever 10 ga...charlie

I like to think Burt Becker did the barrel work on my C grade circa 1887 as Burt didn't leave Lefever until 1889. :whistle:

Here is an AHE with a Bernard top rib. Hard to see through the matting, but it’s there.

Charles Daly 16g 29” with pretty ribs.

Beautiful work as always Breck. A bit atypical for an AHE to have D4

Your barrel and I do see the Bernard checkerboard pattern

https://photos.smugmug.com/Damascus/...rd%20rib-M.jpg

This is another Parker with Bernard I with a different rib pattern

https://photos.smugmug.com/Damascus/...100_3929-M.jpg

An Austrian Cape Gun with Bernard I

https://photos.smugmug.com/Damascus/...39722x10-M.jpg