Parker VH 28 bore restoration
- Thread starter claudio o
- Start date
sillymike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
As silly as it may sound... I think you should open a onlyfan account... And just stream yourself working in the shop.
As the metal work slowly comes together so does the wood finish and checkering.
At some point the wood and metal go carefully back together….metal “in the white”…the last of the screws get fitted and dressed down, trigger guard polished and engraving recut, now the metal is ready for hardening!
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At some point the wood and metal go carefully back together….metal “in the white”…the last of the screws get fitted and dressed down, trigger guard polished and engraving recut, now the metal is ready for hardening!
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Patrick Gidlet
CGN Regular
- Location
- Thunder Bay
Thanks for taking the time to post this Claudio, it's a privilege to see the steps that go into your work. Beautifully done as always.
All the time spent on surface preparation will be totally wasted if the next few steps of the restoration go sideways
In my way of thinking nothing can put a bigger damper on the overall end result than a poor or incorrect finish…so getting it right is extremely important when so much time and effort has been spent getting there.
More than 20 years ago I had the privilege of making Dr Gaddy’s acquaintance, our phone conversations were brief and to the point, he liked to teach….I listened and tried to learn and because of his generous guidance I learned to recreate what had been published but I also learned other tricks that never were.
This and the evolvement of my own techniques have allowed me to achieve very pleasing metal finishing results…
Original Parker colours are subtle and somewhat translucent at times…best described as gasoline-on-water like, so incorrect colours are easy to spot.
I think he would have been happy with these…
In my way of thinking nothing can put a bigger damper on the overall end result than a poor or incorrect finish…so getting it right is extremely important when so much time and effort has been spent getting there.
More than 20 years ago I had the privilege of making Dr Gaddy’s acquaintance, our phone conversations were brief and to the point, he liked to teach….I listened and tried to learn and because of his generous guidance I learned to recreate what had been published but I also learned other tricks that never were.
This and the evolvement of my own techniques have allowed me to achieve very pleasing metal finishing results…
Original Parker colours are subtle and somewhat translucent at times…best described as gasoline-on-water like, so incorrect colours are easy to spot.
I think he would have been happy with these…
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