I'm glad that you like the engraving. A lot of thought went into it. When I first sent the gun to Ken Hurst, I had a pattern of quail for the bottom inspired by an original Parker CHE. I never really liked it and when Ken became sick, I got the gun back and changed the pattern completely. Lee Griffiths used the entire lateral bottom of the receiver on another A-1 project and it got me thinking in an entirely different way. I came up with some new sketches and Lee masterfully engraved them on the gun. I think the scene might be more vivid if I take off more of the case colors, but since the gun is still at Steve's place, I'll wait and see it before I decide to remove some more. To clear up any confusion, the gun came completely assembled, but had a problem with one of the ejectors. I had Steve work on this and that. I was told by CSMC that the gun was "ready to go", but apparently it needed some more work. We'll see what can be done with the indexing of the screws.
