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Originally Posted by Harry Collins
....... I was told that in EDM's book there was reference to Parker putting a fake Damascus pattern on fluid steel guns and he thought this was one of them. .......Harry
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A failure of memory. What Ed said, to paraphrase, was that unscrupulous and cheap makers were known to paint damascus patterns on cheap rolled steel barrels to emulate the costly and sturdy true damascus barrels. It had nothing to do with Parker other than being in a book about Parkers.
I've seen a couple of these, they rattled, they looked cheap and like they might blow up if you put a cherry bomb in the chamber. Ed said they were intended to fool people, and I think that's right. I was at Dale Edmunds' one day when he had one of these damascus painted barrels that a customer had sent in thinking that it was real damascus. It would have cost more to refinish real damascus than the gun was worth. So it fooled somebody in present times.
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