"We have been trying to buy one of the matting machine's, there are 3 that we have found and are working on buying one of them.
We still have a supply of winchester solid ribs for m-12's and m-42's but would like to make our own.
That said, we are also looking into comming into the 20 century are using a lazer engraver to do the matting.
It looks great in the samples we have done and i am hopefull that we will have simmons/winchester solid ribs at some point soon.
I am also working on the return of the simmons classic rib patteren, the herringbone style we did for many years.
These will be a by order job, no mass produced product, needless to say but it is hurting my brain with all the math i have been doing so i am going to have a Guiness extra stout at this time.
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paul salchow,simmons gun repair.
http://www.simmonsguns.com or
http://www.simmonslawenforcement.com"
The above post appeared on another board 0n 2/8/08
"Wow, how good are you at file cutting. it has been my experience with rib matting that if there are any miss-matched patterns in the overall finish of the rib it will show up like nothing seen before.
We have tried different ways to matte a rib and found some that work great and some that just look plane ugly.
Laser cutting works good, sand blasting works ok but milling a pattern works the best for us.
Rolling the pattern works but the size and cost of a press like the one i designed was way to much.
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paul salchow,simmons gun repair.
http://www.simmonsguns.com or
http://www.simmonslawenforcement.com"
The above post appeared on the board on 4/29/08.
OB
