Parker VH 28 bore restoration

Absolutely beautiful.

Make sure EVERYTHING is screwed back tightly into place.

Just a word of advise from something I do not want to talk about to this very day. :)
 
I just went thru the linked thread you posted for the Daly...all I can say is WOW... INCREDIBLE WORK !! What talent and knowledge you guys possess !! Thank you for sharing it with us !
 
As the metal work slowly comes together so does the wood finish and checkering.

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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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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.

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I think he would have been happy with these…
 
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Absolutely astounding. Is this being done for a client or will this piece come up for sale? Im sure Im not the only inquiring mind,
 
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