A1 Reproduction Custom Project
 

Hi all,
Thought I would share a project I started earlier this year - I purchased an A1 Reproduction - in the white - with the goal to have it custom engraved. After talking around a bit I was able to get on the list with Mr Geoffroy Gournet to do the engraving.

We traded sketches and then I made samples using photos I have of my dogs. Surprisingly tricky to find photos of the dogs that worked well on the gun layouts.

Shown below are some of the layout ideas we worked through. I wanted the gun to look like a Parker with the engraving and matching the A grade scroll work I have on another gun.

Also including a sample of completed work. Much more work to be done - but it is getting close enough to get excited now so thought I would share. Overall been a great project and worth the wait..

Well there is no one who does it better than Geoff…. Looks like it’s going to be magnificent

Gotta love those springers!

Have fun with the project as well as the end result. You will love it.

Dont sweat every detail. There is fun in letting Geoffroy do his thing.

What a great project!

I found the same thing about finding the right pictures of my dogs for a custom upgrade project. I had a bunch of pictures but none of them were appropriate, and I ended up going a different way.

Good luck with it & thanks for sharing it with us.

Ha, the quail sure look like the ones on my 20ga Model 21, right down to the blue and gold pins. Sure a nice complement! Merry Christmas to All!

You must be right ! The process started seven months ago and I was looking around at so many fine guns online I would have been hard pressed to remember what guns I was showing Geoffroy as examples.. Your gun is absolutely amazing and must be a match - and I thank you for taking the complement as it certainly is. I am not sure if the quail idea are going to make it into the final - but I will keep you all posted.. and yes- Merry Christmas to all !

I'd like to hear and see more of Tom's 21. It has a familiar look, maybe the work, before engraving, of a local PA gunsmith of great talent.

Sorry Bill Cody letter and known history back to original owner. Always easy to say 'it's a fake especially when it is another's gun. Merry Christmas!

Tom, I thought, because of the round sculpted frame, that it may have been the 21 that Russ Bickel built a few years ago and converted to ejector. I didn't mean to imply that it was a fake.