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Thank you for the kind words Ken. It was my pleasure to work on the gun and to make it right. It has been in a sad state for far too long. And I am glad you made the commitment to make the gun right.
I pride myself in trying to be as historically accurate in any of the work that I do on these fine guns. And with so much missing on this gun, along with the fact that nearly each and every early Optimus is different, it left an uphill battle at times to try and make sure that we were making the right choices. And IF a decision had to come down to personal aesthetics, we made darn sure that the result was something that could have come out of Uncle Dan's factory in the early 1890s.
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02-19-2020, 05:11 PM
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Thank you for the kind words Ken. It was my pleasure to work on the gun and to make it right. It has been in a sad state for far too long. And I am glad you made commitment to make the gun right.
I pride myself in trying to be as historically accurate in any of the work that I do on these fine guns. And with so much missing on this gun, along with the fact that nearly each and every early Optimus is different, it left an uphill battle at times to try and make sure that we were making the right choices. And IF a decision had to come down to personal aesthetics, we made darn sure that the result was something that could have come out of Uncle Dan's factory in the early 1890s.
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Both you and Ken have a lot to be proud of with this beautiful Lefever shotgun.
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