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Post by kings6 on Apr 4, 2024 19:48:33 GMT -5
Well, they are still there Ed! He said he tries to work on jobs Monday through Thursday then Take care of the family's farm and work on his projects the other days.
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Post by kings6 on Apr 4, 2024 19:02:46 GMT -5
I literally have never seen so many boxes and bins of revolver parts in one place before. The ironic thing is even with all those parts, Alan was tickled to death when I gave him a stainless steel Pietta Pony Express bisley spurred hammer I had sent down for that project.
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Post by kings6 on Apr 4, 2024 18:30:37 GMT -5
Who knows how long before it goes back on his bench! That man has more jobs in his shop that Carters has little pills!
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Post by kings6 on Apr 4, 2024 18:23:40 GMT -5
What the heck is Hamilton Bowen style mean🥴?
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Post by kings6 on Apr 1, 2024 10:20:50 GMT -5
I mentioned in another post that I was able to spend a long day along side Alan Harton in his shop last Friday. I have a USFA Rodeo Shopkeeper I bought from Kooz down there for a few tweaks and it was for this gun that Alan used to teach me how to make a set of one piece grips out of a piece of walnut I got from Steven Dodd Hughes.
I had the gun sent to Alan to have a bisley spurred hammer added, action job, fluted recut to the long flute style and the matte Rodeo redone to a high polish and reblue.
As I was looking at all the cool tools, boxes of parts and racks of guns I asked Alan if redoing the USFA meant just removing the original blue or if it meant mostly metal prep and he said it all was metal prep to polish the underlying metal rather than just removing a matte finish. I asked if he used a buffing wheel to polish the metal to a higher finish and he “rather emphatically” told me that there was no buffing wheels in the shop. He took a few steps and opened a drawer that was full of stones! He took one out, turned to the little USFA and promptly showed me how quickly he could make the matte finish on the main frame could disappear!
I guess I should not have been surprised since I had just handled a restored Colt that Alan had had to micro weld around every screw hole and edge to build up where a buffing wheel had transformed an old classic to sloped edged blurry holed mess. The gun was beautiful and a perfect example of the work done by a man with a love for clean classic firearms.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 31, 2024 20:26:40 GMT -5
I did snag it.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 31, 2024 10:06:35 GMT -5
He is risen indeed!
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Post by kings6 on Mar 30, 2024 12:24:24 GMT -5
I was able to handle one of Bob Baers personal revolvers on Friday. Very neat, slick and well fine but a perfect example of a man building a gun just the way HE wanted it, not Joe someone else thought it should be built.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 30, 2024 5:45:38 GMT -5
Getting ready to head back across Town to catch a flight back home to Oregon. I was able to spend the entire day yesterday playing around in Alan Harton’s shop then spending a wonderful evening with he and his wife.
For a guy who loves single action gun parts, it was mind blowing! I think Alan even has more parts than Bushog! I just wish the trip could have been longer so I could have made the short trip across town to Ronnie Wells magic kingdom as well.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 28, 2024 13:57:37 GMT -5
I just got two blued ones and they look and work as they should. They called to say all they had were NM type pins in full size Blackhawk length but I had no trouble shortening one for an old model Single Six.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 26, 2024 23:34:55 GMT -5
Even logged in I can’t see the 1911 Addicts ad. Registered then found you have to be there 30 days or 50 posts before you can access the ads. Guess I won't be seeing those ads.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 26, 2024 10:26:01 GMT -5
Spring broke kind of early here so I already have several mowing in already. Unfortunately it was a really wet and mild winter so the moss has exploded in the yards. A really short cut mowing then a heavy treatment of moss killer and the grass is greener and the moss is turning black. The next dry spell means one more short mow then THATCH! I have not thatch in years and it feels like walking on a mattress so it is due. Pull all that dead moss out then get the nephews over to help take it up and haul it off. Once that is done it will be aerate and overseed and see how things go from there.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 23, 2024 22:19:18 GMT -5
No more Bowen Nimrods here now. Neither are any by Clements, Forkin, Harton nor Gallagher. Only one by John Linebaugh here now.
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Post by kings6 on Mar 22, 2024 15:54:56 GMT -5
I want three or four of those Hi-Point blasters!
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Post by kings6 on Mar 21, 2024 9:55:41 GMT -5
Unfortunately that was my thought Keyle! Steel two piece grip frame, bisley spurred hammer, a #5 base pins, a Bowen rear sight, a fire blue trigger, a old model 44 mag cylinder and a piece of gorgeous English walnut from Steven Dodd Hughes. A guy doesn't need much else but a base gun and a few bucks!
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