"Carmalo, this boxlock will be round bodied, so we need it plenty wide, make it 43 millimeters wide."
"Ok, 43 millimeters, it's OK."
THe thing arrives, it is 38 mm across. Phone to Carmalo, "We said 43, and it is 38, did you send us the wrong part?"
"You mean you really want 43 millimeters? Thirty eight is not enough?"
"Yes, we really need 43"
"Oh, then send it back."
THis is the problem, not the hardening, not the steel quality, not the regulation. These guys do not communicate. Not communicating often goes with not innovating. Blindly copying two English prototypes suited them and they stopped there. The lack of curiosity, the absence of any drive to innovate, especially when compared to Italian gumakers, is amazing.
Every gunmaking area has its archetypical gun. London the sidelock, Birmingham the boxlock, Edinburgh the Round Action, Liege the B25, Saint Etienne the Darne and Ideal, Gardone the low profile Overunder, Ferlach the drilling. What is the Eibar archetype? See the problem now?
