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Originally Posted by Bruce Day
Very nice, great checkering job. European or claro? I have difficulty telling the difference. Are you a gunsmith? Maybe tell about your work and how you do it?
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Bruce,
Nah, not a real gunsmith. Me and my mutt just like the doubles.
I did do it for a number of stores for a couple yrs when I was out of work. I had a machine shop and did all kinds of work. Mostly repairs, 1911 work, pads, etc.. The trade is interesting in that it takes so many different skills to just do decent gunsmithing, let alone gunmaking. I find learning a skill to be the fascinating part. Loose ribs are normally a death card for most buyers of doubles. With this skill in my pocket, it could open up some opportunities on guns that are otherwise desireable and at a great price. The damascus finishing was being tossed around quite a bit a few yrs ago on the doublegunshop bbs and I took an interest in it. I failed a couple attempts and a couple yrs later, I tried again based on a review of some old emails with Dr Gaddy, his articles and some banter on the dg bbs