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Shotgunlover, I do wish that you can complete your gun someday. Someone felt my gun important enough to have the renowned gunsmith, I. M. Crudgington , rebarrel the gun . Mr. Crudgington, along with Mr. Baker, was an author of the valuable three volume set of British Shotgun. I enjoy looking at Mr. Crudgington's work as much as looking inside the gun.

Darryl,

The cost, around ten thou, is the primary inhibiting factor. I considered a high tech approach after seeing the capabilities of CAD and 3D scanning on Jay Lenno's garage. And using 3D printing to build a working SXS prototype of my own action.

I am pondering whether a 3D scan of the action body would yield sufficient data to build a monobloc and then into that fit Boehler Super Blitz tubes. I have visions of a ribless setup with a detachable sunken top rib in carbon fiber. Asking around I found that such a high tech approach is nowhere near as costly as a dovetail barrrel set made in England.

The approach is unorthodox, heretical to some. For me monobloc is fine, I do not mind the visible joint at all, and ribs, well my views on those have been often posted.

I suppose that soon your idea , or something similar, will be available. I think my barrels are from the 1960s. My gun is number 2 of 2. Maybe you have #1.

This is one of those that was just so nicely done, it was a shame, but I traded it off for something else I wanted and I don't even remember what that was. It is a Westley Richards 10 bore with massive barrels and frame, probably built on an 8 gauge frame. It weighed 12 1/2 pounds. It had Kilby barrels and Stanton sidelocks. The sidelocks were like the ones pictured earlier on this thread, jeweled, polished and all the screw heads were aligned.