I am definitely on a posting binge tonight.
Had the chance last summer to visit Doug Turnbull's operation, located only about 1 1/2 hours drive from me, and was given a two plus hour tour of the operation by Doug's number one man. It's a great operation with really nice, friendly and talented people who were very willing to answer our hundreds of questions.
The bone charcoal case coloring operation was of course not on the tour as it is one of his secrets which I totally understand. Since that visit I have really come to appreciate what he can do there and how distinctive his coloring is, and now I have a question.
Galazan had a number of finished RBL 20's on his site a few months back and the color cased examples made me think it was Turnbull's. I don't know if Turnbull does this for the RBL's, but did note that the RBL colors appear very consistent between all the frames. That is, the same colors appear in the same areas of the frames between examples, but with slight variations of course. This is quite different from the case colors on other high quality makers guns where gun to gun the coloring varies to a much wider extent.
Are specific colors more likely to show up in specific areas because of the metal thickness at those spots? Is the consistency seen on the RBL's due to the frames all being oriented in the charcoal box in the same position?
Don't know how I keep coming up with all of these obscure questions, but I am always looking to add to my technical knowledge,
