Buttplate screws - Announcement!

[B. Dudley]

I would like to share something that I am doing.

I have been working with a local production machine shop on manufacturing Parker buttplate screws for my parts inventory.

I know, I know... you may say that others are offering Parker buttplate screws for sale, why do I have to do it?
Well, no one is having screws made they way I am having them made.

On All parkers from the beginning up to the mid 1920s, especially on guns with Dogs Head Buttplates, the screws on the butt have their screw slots timed and also the heads are dressed off flat and FLUSH with the buttplate.

When using used screws, or new screws from other available sources, fitting them properly cannot be done. If the slot is timed, the screw almost always sits down low in the buttplate hole. And the angle of the hole in the wood can leave the head sitting at an angle in the hole as well. If you look at original buttplate screws, the heads are all a little different from screw to screw due to the hand fitting to each gun at the factory.

The screws I am having made are high headed and have no slots cut in them. So, the screw slot can be timed and also the head can be priorly fitted down flush with the buttplate. Just like the factory did them.

Within a month, I will have a starting supply of 400 screws that are made this way.