Some folks here should contact Jack and tell him he's doing it wrong.
Didn't he learn anything after all those years in Birmingham?
Hahaha.
OWD
HaHaaa. Someone ought to contact Ken Eversull and tell him he's doing it wrong too, I mean all those years working for Fabbri, didn't HE learn anything? And while your at it...contact Paul Hodgins and tell him he's doing it wrong as well, didn't he learn anything in London? Or how about Del Whitman and Reto Beuhler, maybe they're doing it wrong too?? C'mon man, get real.
By the way....about a month ago, I had in my hands a Dickson RA that had been laser welded to tighten up the works and put it back on the face, the work was absolutely flawless, even with a jewelers loup in hand you could not tell the locking bolt, hook and forend iron had any work at all done to them. First class the whole way. Thats the way it should be done, first class. If Jack Rowe had been brought up with laser welding in his arsenal, you'd be damned sure he'd be using it. I'm having a Lancaster body action self-opener put back on the face right now, and it has gotten the laser treatment too, locking bolt, forend iron, and barrel hook, the works. There is now 99.9% contact on all bearing surfaces, when the gun left the factory in 1894, they couldn't have dreamed of getting that level of contact at ALL surfaces. Technology is a wonderful thing.
Dustin
