A1 Reproduction Custom Project

[David]

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..

[Jeff langbehn]

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

[Big D]

Gotta love those springers!

[B. Dudley]

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.

[GH-16]

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.

[ahfoxman]

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!

[David]

Originally Posted by Tom Kidd

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 !

[Bill Murphy]

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.

[ahfoxman]

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!

[Bill Murphy]

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.