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Something a little different. Not nearly as intricate as most others but “intricate” was not common in the early 19th century. 
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Gun Engraving
- Thread starter Stephen Nash
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Londonshooter
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Want! Outstanding condition. Seriously I'm thinking I 'need' a flinter. Interesting that the barrel tubes are a little different from each other.
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Barrels were salvaged from a Belgian caplock. They were 32” 12ga, and I loped off 2” of the chambers for the breech plugs do they are 30” now. They were a poor choice as the are HEAVY. Oh well, live and learn.
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Licensed to kill
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LOL, forgot to add the lock pic. Post edited.
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Well, there is one for sale at intersurplus for <$1000. However, it has been converted to cap and not a simple drum/nipple conversion but had new cap breechplugs made. The lock appear to be original so, change the hammers , fit frizzens and frozen springs and make a set of flint breechplugs and you have your sxs flint relatively cheap, just requires a little fiddling. I keep going back to it thinking I need that but I have two sxs flint relatively cheap to that I don’t shoot as much as I should so keep talking myself out of it. Is a Jones and iirc is listed as “black powder”.
Londonshooter
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That's funny. Mr. Nash recommended the Jones to me a month ago and noted that it had started life as a flint gun. "A little fiddling" ?
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It is clearly a converted flint. I would place it 1800-1810 manufacture based on it features, likely closer to 1810. A little fiddling…… breechplugs plugs are not difficult to make (if you game a lathe) and the lock being originally flint, all the mounting points are there. Frizzens can be sourced from Blackley or Dyson as well as frizzens springs and flint hammers. You should be able to get pan sections also. I think A little fiddling fits.
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Example, these are the locks that I used on the above gun. As you can see, they don’t look the same. That is because I cut the frizzen/pan sections also off and lowered it 1/8” (iirc) and reshaped the plate and changed the hammers. If you compare how much fence is sticking up above the lock plate (under the hammer throat) you can see how much I lowered it. Just a little fiddling. 
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The patch puller I made for it. Biggest PITA of the whole project but I think it turned out OK. I would love to see how they were made back in the day. Sorry, this is off topic. I’ll stick to engraving pics 
the spank
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A buddy dug this 1978 Ithaca catalog out of his library. He said I should have it to go with my Ithaca collection so he is sending it to me. Check out the engravings and prices of the 5E and $5000 grade in 1978...and the checkering on the $5000 grade. Now that is unique!
A number of years ago I managed to acquire this interesting gun. It's a Remington Model 11-48 12 ga semi auto Skeet gun made about 1950. It was custom engraved by Arnold Griebel who was trained in Germany and came Chicago in the 40's and engraved custom guns into the 60's. He was one of the top engravers of his time.
Semi autos aren't know for fine engraving but this gun is an exception. This gun was owned by a well know industrialist (Robert Morse) who was also an ardent skeet shooter who could well afford a fine custom gun.
Hoping you like this Griebel engraved Remington.
Semi autos aren't know for fine engraving but this gun is an exception. This gun was owned by a well know industrialist (Robert Morse) who was also an ardent skeet shooter who could well afford a fine custom gun.
Hoping you like this Griebel engraved Remington.
Can something be frightfully clever, beautifully executed, and ugly at the same time?Meanwhile in Czechia... today's contender for interesting fence (and action)
- In internal-external hammer SxS shotgun? by Gustav Fükert
Time to have a look see at modern Italian engraving. This is a Perazzi MX8 made about 2003 complete with the well know drop down trigger. It has SC3 engraving which is the first level up from the entry level. The sky is the limit for high end custom work and takes years to complete. Engraving was done by Giacomo Badillini who gained fame engraving for Perazzi, Krieghoff, Fabbri and others. Unfortunately he passed far to soon but his engraving is highly sought after and guns with his engraving often fetch a premium.
I believe that this engraving was done entirely by hand. Computer engraving is becoming increasing common, even with high end makers like Perazzi. I much prefer hand engraving.
Enjoy
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I believe that this engraving was done entirely by hand. Computer engraving is becoming increasing common, even with high end makers like Perazzi. I much prefer hand engraving.
Enjoy
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Should be easy to tell with a loupe if it was done by hand. Since the bullino images would be made purely out of fine dots or very fine engraving with crosshatching to get depth. And i doubt lasers or machines make as clean of a cut as a pneumatic graver.
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I think Rizzini as well as other Italian makers do this. While I have not seen this treatment Im person, I think it a good practice to provide a quality looking design at a significant reduction in cost (I would assume).
the spank
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I watched a video a while back made in the 80's in the Browning factory in Japan. The engraving on the early Citori's up until about 1990 was done that way. The pattern would be laid out and done by machine then handed off to an actual engraver and finished by hand to create the hand engraved finished look. Now it's just all machine.
I understand that laser engraving is getting better all the time.
