Dumb question maybe, Doug, but now that you have removed the engraving from the gun pictured, are you going to have it re-engraved or leave it the way it is? Are you going to have it recased, too?
Jimmy, that isn't a dumb question at all.
Both Foxes belong to clients and have been annealed. The frame on top will be engraved in a custom pattern and recased. This frame has since had some minor refinements done to it to further clean up the shape but overall what you see is what you get.
The bottom frame has also been annealed and is in the raw state and does not yet have the tangs bent. The client originally just wanted the tangs straightened and that would be the end of it. He has now decided that he wants a "C" grade pattern engraved on the gun which is, I feel, is a very wise choice.
The reason I posted this picture originally was to show the difference was to show the "before and after" of tang shapes and how it might radically change the appearance of the finished gun.
I should mention that both of these guns are small frame ejector Foxes the top gun being a 20 and the bottom a 16.