I like what Bob is doing. It is his gun and he has every right in the world to make it into anything he wishes. I also have no reason whatsoever to suspect he is doing it for any purpose other than his own enjoyment of his own property. Accusing him of faking a rare gun to defraud someone is out of line and an insult, but consider the source. That said it would do Bob no harm to mark the finished gun in some unobtrusive manner to show that it is a reproduction, but that is completely up to him. JMHO...Geo