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Anyone need a 20 gauge?

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Big D,

I just bought a 12g DHE. Oscar did the barrels i 1998. I was not impressed. The pattern on the top rib was soft not sharp. I don't know the condition of the barrel before refinishing. But, I would expect a craftsman of Dr. Gaddy's repute to have chased the top rib. Just my 2 cents.

Prosit.

I don't think there is the value there for the asking price. the stock is spliced together where they cut a big piece off and then tried to replace it and it's my guess it's been recased.

Just my 2 cents with no reference to the late Dr. Gaddy.

I'm quite certain that particular craftsman knew how to do a perfect job and likely wanted to do a perfect job but, as is so often the case, the owner of the gun may have told Dr. Gaddy to "stop before going over $XXX.xx"

So often, the difference between a 'commercially acceptable" job and a "perfect" job is the $$ amount someone is willing to pay. Dr. Gaddy was quite capable of the "perfect" job.

Austin,
In many cultures it is unwise to disparage the dead. Oscar re-discovered how to finish Damascus barrels.barrels. Since he left us others have refined Oscar's processes. I have photographed Oscar redone Damascus and they are beautiful. The restored Damascus which Brad Bachelder does for me is more defined but Brad has told me face to face that Oscar blazed the trail which he follows.

May Oscar be with his departed dogs,
Mark

Actually "Chasing" a Parker rib is not something that can be done for a reasonable amount of money. If anyone knows someone who will "Chase" a well worn Parker rib and make it look original for less than about a thousand dollars, I would like to know who he is. Oscar was a friend of mine, and a friend of many others who gave him trashed out guns to work on. He seldom refused them. He would have been better to turn down some lost causes. I met him in the early days of his experimentation with case hardening and Damascus browning. In those days, his Damascus browning was more to my liking than the case hardening.

Dean, BTF Bill,

I'm talking about the quality of the work. Please set aside your notions of propriety and familiarity, for a moment. The patron prepaided Dr. Gaddy $400.00, in 1998. We can never know the instructions that the patron provided to Dr. Gaddy. Yet, the fact that Dr. Gaddy charged $125.00 for the rust blue, is indisputable. I think that there was more than enough latitude in the fee to chase the rib. I think that it is a matter of running a gravure down the grooves of the rib. Perhaps I'll have it redone and advise you of the 2012 cost. Again, just my opinion.

Prosit

There sure are a lot of little squiggles. Ham handed me would slip and I wouldn't get the angles right. There isn't a straight line in them and each has a steep side and a shallow angle side.

But I'm no expert.

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I'm reminded of a saying my Grandma would tell me when I would say "but I just thought....", her reply "don't think your ill equipped".