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  1. Mike Dubber

    Removing Barrels from the New Generation Colt Pythons?

    None of this was to indicate that the new model Colt Pythons could not be engraved. It's a matter of how you hold them in a vice and how you accommodate a frame with the barrel installed. The Python frame and barrel is a big piece is hardware to be revolving around in an engravers vice...
  2. Mike Dubber

    Annie Oakley

    Those were the dates of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show - however, there is always a footnote of controversy in the history books. The show opened in Omaha, NE in 1883, traveled around the USA and in Europe over the years of operation. It went bankrupt in 1913, although it was carried on...
  3. Mike Dubber

    Annie Oakley

    No, she was 66 at her death.
  4. Mike Dubber

    Annie Oakley

    She was great study for this knife I engraved a few years ago
  5. Mike Dubber

    Removing Barrels from the New Generation Colt Pythons?

    It's only a guess, but I would say it to streamline the production time.
  6. Mike Dubber

    Removing Barrels from the New Generation Colt Pythons?

    I have been researching issues about removing barrels from the new production Colt Pythons for engraving. I have always pulled Python barrels, it makes the engraving job so much easier! I had read somewhere that there was a technical issue about removing barrels from the new generation...
  7. Mike Dubber

    Rifle Floorplates with Diamonds

    Way back in the 70's when I was in my first years at the jewelry bench the street talk was that irradiated diamonds gave off radiation and were dangerous to wear. That wasn't true, but the pubic resisted buying them because of the bad publicity. Early on, when diamond radiation treatment...
  8. Mike Dubber

    Rifle Floorplates with Diamonds

    I'm in the process for engraving a pair of John Bolliger Custom Rifles for a client who is having them built for his wife and daughter. The client requested a theme with subtle hearts and a with birthstones mounted in gold crosses on the floorplates. Most of the work on both rifles is...
  9. Mike Dubber

    Question: Templates for Knife Scale Designs?

    You can find ready made transferable designs for Spyderco Delica and Dragonfly knives at www.engravingtransferdesigns.com
  10. Mike Dubber

    The Lady Sharpshooters

    This is the MasterPlate I designed especially for the LSS Class - they are engraving 1911 Colts.
  11. Mike Dubber

    The Lady Sharpshooters

    Greetings from Emporia and the beautiful new GRS Training Center Classrooms. The Lady Sharpshooters are hard at work - the hardest working group of students ever!
  12. Mike Dubber

    Kay Lane Obituary

    Sorry to hear about Kay. Ben and Kay were wonderful friends who we visited with often when Janet and I lived in Estes Park, Colorado. Their home was a mountain-top rotunda of art and color. Both were life time supporters of the arts and of FEGA.
  13. Mike Dubber

    The 2021 SCI Auction Rifle-Pistol Project

    Thanks Sam, it was gratifying to have participated in this world-class event.
  14. Mike Dubber

    The 2021 SCI Auction Rifle-Pistol Project

    I have just returned from Las Vegas and the the Safari International Show held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. I was there with John Bolliger, Riflemaker from Pocatello, Idaho, to present our creations - rifle and pistol - for the SCI Grand Auction that was held Saturday evening, January...
  15. Mike Dubber

    Out the window...

    Looks good Sam, got him, thanks!
  16. Mike Dubber

    Out the window...

    Great scenery Sam...I would like a side on of the 4X4 for future reference
  17. Mike Dubber

    Howard Dove shout out

    Thank you Lee, being awarded the Howard Dove Pony benchmarks and identifies engraver's proficiency in the interpretation and execution of the Colt engraving. The competition is always keen, and, in my opinion, clearly identifies the engraving proficiency of the winnner to the greater group of...
  18. Mike Dubber

    The Colt Collectors Association Starts Starts Tomorrow

    The Annual CCA Show starts tomorrow in Noblesville, Indiana (Indianapolis). I'll have this 1903 on my table as well as the FEGA Auction Colt, the 2022 SCI Auction Colt and several others on my table. AND, if you can attend, you can also see the great work of Layne Zulke, Brian Powley, Lee...
  19. Mike Dubber

    RIP Gianfranco Pedersoli

    I visdited his studio in 2005 with the GRS team. He was a wonderful host and an outstanding engraver.
  20. Mike Dubber

    SCI 50th Anniversary Rifle

    I finished another major part of them 2022 Safari International 50th Anniversary Auction Rifle. This John Bolliger Custom was fitted with a steel butt plate that presented lots of room for scrolls and figures. Following the American Game Animal theme we decided on a Rocky Mountain Bighorn for...

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