Post by kings6 on Feb 1, 2024 17:58:30 GMT -5
In the past there had been a number of discussions about the number of gunsmiths who have retired, scaled back their offerings or passed on. Once a person takes in their shingle, the number of guns they have worked on becomes a finite number and any chance of getting one of these guns is influenced by chance, personal contact with others or blind luck. This one turns out to be one of those blind luck cases where a quick glance over a long list of guns for sale happened to have three names all together, any one of which would ring a custom revolver nuts bell. When I saw Clements, Turnbull and Persinger all in the same line I had to stop and look and the result is this little gun coming to Oregon.
It started life as a 50th Anniversary Flat top 357 and once the the original buyer got it home he then decided to send it off to David for some clean up. According to the seller, he had had David do a 357 to 44 Special conversion in the past so he decided to have David leave this one as a 357 but "clean" it up and touch it up. This included a full action job, #5 base pin, pinned in brass bead front sight and remove the billboard off the label. He then had David send it to Doug Turnbull for case coloring then he had Paul Persinger of El Paso TX make the walnut grips. Unfortunately, when the seller moved in the past he lost all his paperwork on this gun and his 357 to 44 conversion. While this casuded me a bit of hesitation, after talking to the man and seeing
While I have not owned a 357 revolver in years I could not pass up the opportunity to grab this one with all the quality folks that had touched it. My dilemma now is to whether I want to fit the blue steel bisley hammer I have in the tool box to it or to leave it as is. If I do fit the bisley hammer, I will retain the original hammer since it is all part of the integrated action job by David and let it go with the gun when it gets rehomed someday.
It started life as a 50th Anniversary Flat top 357 and once the the original buyer got it home he then decided to send it off to David for some clean up. According to the seller, he had had David do a 357 to 44 Special conversion in the past so he decided to have David leave this one as a 357 but "clean" it up and touch it up. This included a full action job, #5 base pin, pinned in brass bead front sight and remove the billboard off the label. He then had David send it to Doug Turnbull for case coloring then he had Paul Persinger of El Paso TX make the walnut grips. Unfortunately, when the seller moved in the past he lost all his paperwork on this gun and his 357 to 44 conversion. While this casuded me a bit of hesitation, after talking to the man and seeing
While I have not owned a 357 revolver in years I could not pass up the opportunity to grab this one with all the quality folks that had touched it. My dilemma now is to whether I want to fit the blue steel bisley hammer I have in the tool box to it or to leave it as is. If I do fit the bisley hammer, I will retain the original hammer since it is all part of the integrated action job by David and let it go with the gun when it gets rehomed someday.
Feel free to add anything I forgot Burney!