Keith Kercher lives a few miles from my home and I know him well and have used his excellent gunsmithing services several times. He has done some really fine things to some of my way over the hill guns. One an 1840's Irish muzzle loader marked "Richards" on the back action lock and on my old Hardy Bros muzzle loading double. He also did the work on the "I" grade Lefever that I own. I did not see the gun until after it was done and ended up in the pawn shop. They sent the gun to him. He took the bulge out of the barrel in my Spanish double that obviously the original owner tried to force some steel shot through. Not good. Nearly destroyed the gun. Now it looks wonderful. It had already been re-blued once and the markings were gone, so I asked Keith to do it again and he did and outstanding job. He uses nothing but old techniques that fit the original chemical processes used on the gun when it was born. Don't fine shotguns live? Of course they do.
Kercher is an expert on Lefevers and does a lot of work for their collector society. He can also touch a gun just lightly enough to spruce it up a bit, just a little off around the ears, and not make it look like a total face lift. As you can tell, I recommend his work. He hasn't advertised until just recently.
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