Fox Custom 20 gauge engraving completed

[tom tutwiler]

Bob Strosin outdid himself. I asked for a bit of his proprietary scroll work on my custom Fox 20 gauge and I wanted a picture of a Fox with a Grouse in his mouth on the bottom. To say it turned out well is an understatement. Well balanced with enough open space to set everything off nicely.

Gun started out life as a Savage 20 gauge Fox Sterly with 26" barrels. Wanted a light grouse/woodcock gun I could carry up the Virginia mountains.

Metalwork and stocking by Dan Rossiter (of course) at Custom Stocks & Steel in Pa.

More to follow when its all together.











PS. And the Fox pic I provided to Bob:



Double PS. And the circassian walnut blank (middle one) we used.

[Angel Cruz Ortiz]

Very nice!! That woodcock is a nice touch.

[Dean Romig]

Wonderful work!

[charlie cleveland]

very nicely done...charlie

[wayne goerres]

Wow The engraved fox looks more like a picture than an engraving.

[Steve Havener]

Tom the sculpting of the action and engraving are magnificent.

[tom tutwiler]

Originally Posted by Steve Havener

Tom the sculpting of the action and engraving are magnificent.

Thanks Steve. That sculpting design was pretty much home grown by me using my imagination along with some graph and tracing paper. I had had another custom gun done (12 gauge Fox Sterly) that I call the Abby Gun named after my dearly departed Golden Retriever. That gun had quite a bit of shaping but nothing like this. I wanted something totally unique as compared to other Fox customs out there. Dan took my ideas and put the file to metal as they say. I was a bit concerned that it might be too radical in design, but Bob's engraving pulled it together to the point that I think it looks pretty nice.

Still deciding on the french grey or to keep it case colored. I think it will look really good either way. This thing is a tiny receiver. Fox 20's were little anyway and a bunch of metal was removed during the shaping. Gun weighs less then 6 lbs and a lot of that is due to the extremely dense Circassian walnut we used.

[Opening Day]

Still deciding on the french grey or to keep it case colored. I think it will look really good either way. This thing is a tiny receiver. Fox 20's were little anyway and a bunch of metal was removed during the shaping. Gun weighs less then 6 lbs and a lot of that is due to the extremely dense Circassian walnut we used.

I might lean toward French grey (I know that's what Bob would tell you) you will lose quite a bit of detail if you case color, no way around that and since it is a custom gun you don't have to worry about what the traditional finish should be. So keep the beautiful engraving for all to see and do French gray

[TOOL MAN]

Beautiful, Tom!! Very tastefully done. I too, would vote for the French Grey.
Those partridge should fold out of sheer reverence for that Fox!!

[David Weber]

Awesome!