Sometimes you encounter a gem of a person who works on firearms for his own pursuit of happiness. Not a business - maybe a hobby but I encountered such a gentleman. He was in construction a decade or more ago. Had a medical issue and that ended his working days. He likes guns and rifles so he bought himself all the necessary equipment to do bone case coloring and hot bluing. I saw some of his case color work on a few pieces that were for sale by another person who gave proper credit for the work. From that, I was able to make contact and discussed "second chance gun" - a long term project or so it has become. I sent him the frame, trigger plate, top lever and trigger bow. He called to say he finished it. He said it was pretty rough but he did his best. He too has a couple Parkers and said the colors came out like a Parker should look but he went on for some time about not being able to completely remove some pitting because the border engraving and the Parker Bros words would be put at risk. You can see how rough this gun was
HERE I think he may be a perfectionist. We spoke at length and I finally asked him how he would like to be paid. He said "See if you like it first. If you do, send a cheque, if you don't like it don't send anything". Now I know I will like it, no matter what, as I know how much time he put into trying to make the proverbial silk purse from a sow's ear. I'm pretty sure this will make a nice addition to the "After" album pics. Probably take a week before it arrives here and I will post some pics then.
Cheers,
Jack
Pleasure doing business with you
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