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#302540 12/01/12 11:00 AM
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Does anyone have knowledge of American shotgun makers who factory etched their Damascus barrels? Has anyone had etched Damascus barrels redone? If so can you post pics?

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I'm not aware of any major U.S. maker who offered etched damascus; nor were the Lindner Daly's sold by Schoverling, Daly & Gales (rountinely) etched. And much of what passed as etched on low quality Belgian imports was roll-graved 'faux damascus'.



"Has anyone had etched Damascus barrels redone?" Excellent question and I also would very much like to see pics!

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Wow - so faux damascus really existed? I didn't know that, and I was just talking to a guy about this yesterday.

Do you know how/why they did this? Was fluid that much cheaper?

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Thanks, I am In deep contemplation trying to determine If I should get these barrels redone. It is an American arms 10 gauge That I believe was etched at the factory. Unfortunately, there's some very light scuff marks on the barrel where it appears somebody may have tried to steel wool some very minor surface rust. If it wasn't such a nice quality gun, I wouldn't contemplate doing so.




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Please tell me what you mean by "etched".


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Originally Posted By: Joe Wood
Please tell me what you mean by "etched".

"Etched" translates to acid eaten. The bbls are left in an acid solution long enough the easier to etch metal is actually eaten down below the surface of the harder to etch metal, thus the pattern can actually be felt as well as seen.


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Leave them alone!
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I agree with John Roberts. Leave them alone. If Drew Hause's pic is an example of acid etched, it looks like it was left to rust in a manure pile.


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Acid etching, though obviously done in France and Belgium, was particularly popular in Germany & Austria. The damascus sample display in the Buchsenmacher u. Jagdmuseum of Ferlach, Austria has the segments paired; one 'black & white' and one etched
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20069190

Acid etched crolle



By J.J. Dupont



Acid etched Twist


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Acid etching is a very old process dating to the third millennium B.C. in India. The Hohokam of AZ used citus juices to etch seashells.
The process of etching barrels likely started where pattern welded barrels began; Anatolia - Bulgaria and Asia Minor

c. 1700 Turkish musket (miquelet) with acid etched 2 Iron crolle at the breech



and acid etched twist toward the muzzle


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