Professional is a reletive term.

[B. Dudley]

Check out this auction I just came across...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=291529856

Would be a very nice gun. 20g. VH And the no reserve at $1,450 start would normally guarantee a sale. But no bids.

Beautifully professionally restored.

I see... Wood gaps, proud metal, a trigger plate that is not fully seated, no checkering, non period recoil pad, pitted action, blued action and a lot of off-timed screws.

I guess professtionally restored is a reletive saying.

[OH Osthaus]

professional just means you get paid for it - it doesn't mean you are good at it.

[B. Dudley]

That I have heard.

[Hammer Fan]

My favorite quote from the description: "THE WOOD IS BEAUTIFUL WITH A NICE EVEN GRAIN. SINCE THE STOCK AND FOREARM TURNED OUT SO NICE IT WAS DECIDED NOT TO CHECKER THEM."

I would have to agree, I don't know why everyone is so insistent on covering their stocks with all that ugly checkering.

[B. Dudley]

I can tell you most deffinately. That gun would graduate to a good looking at 10 foot away status if it was checkered.
Maybe it was decided to leave it bare because no one knew how to checker it.

[Ed Blake]

The restoration appears to have been done by Joan Rivers' plastic surgeon. Who knew?

[B. Dudley]

Good one Ed. !

[Mills]

At least it wasn't a "certified" restoration. That means the person sat through a 6 hour class and paid a fee for a certificate.

[Setter Man]

Like how ther small marks were left on the receiver before re-bluing. Nothing says quality restoration like a blued Parker receiver.

[charlie cleveland]

blue beats painting them with rubberized house paint.... charlie