When I took my 3 day workshop on engraving I met a very interesting guy, a gun builder from Minnesota. I was wearing some of the trade silver I make, and he asked if I could make him a special inlay for a rifle he's building.
He showed me a picture of it in the Canadian book "The Covenant Chain", one of a very few good books on trade silver. It's a primitively done multi-lobed cross, with a depiction of a bird in the center. He wanted me to make it look as if it had been done by a gunsmith with the typical level of skill a gunsmith might possess.
Looks like it'll be a real bugger to inlay!
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b547/azwidget/IMG_0196_zps7117946e.jpg) (http://s1291.photobucket.com/user/azwidget/media/IMG_0196_zps7117946e.jpg.html)
So are you going to have him put a duplicate on your rifle for "practice"?
Nobody's messing with my Mongrel rifle... slap
Quote from: AZWidget on April 22, 2013
Nobody's messing with my Mongrel rifle... slap
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