Engraved Trojan

[Bill Murphy]

You are not alone. I love that gun and appreciate the understated round extension rib. The engraving is what I like, heavily carved and well executed.

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

Understand that this is a highly modified Trojan

Sculpted and engraved

Yes, the nicest one I have seen. Between a little bit of frame filing and what the engraver did, it looks like a sculpted graded frame. The only part on the gun that remains Trojan is the rib extension (at least as far as I can see since the forend is not shown). But I am sure an engraved could make it look like a dolls head was there when the gun is closed.

My only criticism of this gun is the checkering. It could have been much finer given what is being done with the rest of the gun.

[Bill Murphy]

One of our friends built a hammer gun with Trojan barrels and forend. He inletted a Deely latch from a graded Parker but left the Trojan forend mechanism intact. It is one neat hammer gun.

[Mike Franzen]

Originally Posted by Brian Dudley

My only criticism of this gun is the checkering. It could have been much finer given what is being done with the rest of the gun.

Brian you have a trained eye for this kind of thing. Help me out. Other than some wear, what do you see in the checkering? To my untrained eye it looks amazing.

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Mike Franzen

Brian you have a trained eye for this kind of thing. Help me out. Other than some wear, what do you see in the checkering? To my untrained eye it looks amazing.

Way too course. Looks like 16 or 18 lines per inch. A gun of the grade that is trying to be replicated should have checkering of 28 lpi or higher. And finer checkering would not cause the checkering to "trump" the engraving. If anything, it will complement it. The courser checkering makes it stand out more.

[ch]

Yes Mike, done well one does not trump the other.

[ch]

checkering vs. checkering not checkering vs. engraving. Maybe the guy orderded corse then it would be right no? Never new there were absolutes in Parker's.

[B. Dudley]

Well the subject gun is not original. But a custom. There are general standards, set by the fine taste that original guns were built in. And in my opinion, guns built should emulate that.

Besides, you know what they say about opinions...

[ch]

Brian, don't b so hard on your opinion some may value it. I don't think the gun need critizied is all I was getting at. best ch

[C.O.B.]

Rather than reshaping the Trojan frame wouldn't it have been a lot simpler to use a VH frame to start with?