Guy's, I know that Ed Landers get's bashed here a lot for his torch job's. He is credited by Ed Good "ED-1" as the master gunsmith that did the restoration work and there fore has been labled the butcher of doubles.
For a while there were quite a few N.O.S. Fox barrels set's floating around. Ed Landers has been in the gunsmithing business a long time. Over the years he has fit and finished many of these set's either as replacements or as extra barrels set's.
I've seen a few of these that IMO were finished and fit well. Every one I've seen has had this stamp on them. I question if he actually proofed them but by placeing his stamp on them was saying that he would stand behind them. I imagine that when he was doing this it was a different time in America, before the attorney's and politicians started hammering away at the gun business.
I'm not defending his work with a torch, but I would be willing to wager he has repaired more guns than he has ruined!
