fox or parker

[Bindlestiff]

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[Old and Reliable]

[quote=tony williamson;15540]the gh gun has beautiful grade 4 damascus, the del greco colors were done years ago because they are about 90 %, subdued just enough to look good. they look original! but i don't think they are. engraving is sharp and gun is on an 0 frame with 30 inch barrels. i'll post a pic as soon as i figure out how. the fox is a 26 inch barrel brush gun with about 50 % case, clean as a pin. no scatches or gouges and original. here in n.c., sterlingworths are high as a kite. i guess i know foxes a little better because i have seen so many, i've not not seen parkers for sale much around here. people are keeping them i guess. but you can't find a little twenty fox for less than 2500 if its in good shape.

Hate to break your heart, but I paid $1000 even for the PH 16 and $1350 to a private party for the 20 Sterlingworth- both have original uncut 26" barrels too. I see a good number of 12 Sterlingworths for sale up here, the 16 and 20 bores are harder to find, and will command a higher price too!

[Old and Reliable]

[quote=tony williamson;15541]i been a picker for 38 years..a martin hd 28 l.e. 1984, a martin hd28v, two stelling banjos, a sunflower and a staghorn, and a weber yellowstone honey tortoise mandolin for my bluegrass stuff. those are my two big passions. and my kids don't give a tinkers cuss for any of it. figures.

Great. Bet you know what a "harp" means to blues players, even Janis knew when she pulled her "harpoon" from that bandana. I have a 1964 HD-35 and a 1971 HD-28 and follow Doc Watson, the late Randall Hilton and of course, Tony Rice. I also have a Scheerhorn square neck Dobro in open G tuning and a Taylor 830 series acoustic with cut-away and Fishman pickup, tuning in open D for electric slide blues work- Elmore James and Bonnie Raitt are my "gurus" on slide.

I bought my two oldest grandchildren Baby Taylors for Christmas so they can "practice" with Grandpaw- The Gibson Sunflower and also the Sunburst are great "axes" too, I'm looking at one now- 1962 Kalamazoo mfg.

[MarketHunter]

Tony,

I'd be careful if somebody is saying it's DelGrego work. I've heard for years that they wouldn't touch a damascus gun due to what they called "liability reasons".

Morin,

Focus!!!

Destry

[tony williamson]

i'll try to post some pics , maybe someone can recognize the case color.

[C Roger Giles]

The old hinge pin trick appears again

Rog

[tony williamson]

well, i found the album page and put my old gh on there. wow what guns on there! never do see that kind of stuff. i'm just bewildered. anybody recognize the case colors on the gun? i really appreciate all the info from everyone.