Giacomo Sporting USA
 

The forend lug on my Parker VHE 12 gauge has cracked from the barrels and come loose . So our stock guy told me to send it to "Giacomo Sporting" for resoldering .

Any of you guys dealt with these folks before ?

Giacomo relaid the ribs on a DHE of mine and reblued the barrels. Excellent work and very reasonable, but your barrels look like they came from Perazzi, not Parker.

Well they gotta reblue I suppose after the resoldering . They have them and told me $575 back to my door so that isn't so bad I suppose .

Keith Kearcher, cheap and fast, understands double barrel shotguns.

Not necessarily... depends on who you send them to.

Good point, Dean. I took my Krieghoff .410 barrels to Ottsville for fitting. They asked how much I wanted to spend on reattaching the forend lug. I told them "not much" and they dressed up the lug and cold blued it for about nothing. You have to understand your customer!

We actually sent them two sets of barrels !

My Parker's and a mutual friend of yours and mine !

Mr.Sanford of Madison VA has a set of JW Tolley barrels that needed some similar work .

Giacomo Arrighini (if this is the firm of the same namesake) is/was a master gunsmith with Perazzi in Italy when Ithaca began importing the very first Perazzi trap guns in the early 1970s. Perazzi sent him over in advance of the impending sales blitz to instruct Ithaca gunsmiths on how to adjust and repair their guns. The rest, as they say, is history. After a few years living like the Maytag Repair Man, he opened his own repair center in the Rome, NY vicinity. Among his most notable achievements were assistance in the development of the original Perazzi over/under competition gun, designed by Daniele Perazzi and Ennio Matarelli, and the removable or "dropout" single trigger. Begun in 1957, Armi Perazzi revolutionized the over/under competition shotgun, and 7 short years later, Matarelli won the Olympic Gold Medal in Tokyo in men's trap with their prototype design.