This is the Colt SAA started by Winston Churchill, and carried through to completion by me when Parkinson's disease prevented Winston from working on it further.
Yes Mitch, I agree with that. This case is made up of multiple small shaped and fitted planks, that are glued onto a laminated wooden core. They were a max of 1/2" thick off the bandsaw, so there was minimal allowance for shaping. To get the whole case from the material available required a...
Thank you Leonardo, but there is zero, none, zilch, CNC involved here. This is entirely conceived, designed, and built, by hand. That goes for all of my work by the way.
Thank you, very much all you commenters. It's so gratifying, and many of you would know this, when the risks we take have panned out, and the result is appreciated by our peers.
Mitch, thanks for your interest, and for those wanting to know a bit more; seven years ago I drew the first...
Fitted inside the lid of the Colt SAA that I engraved with Winston Churchill. Starting with 1/8" mild steel plate, designed, drawn, machined for depth, chiselled, filed and ground before 24ct gold inlay and a big cleanup job. Sawn out with No2 jewelers blades, niter blued, and inlayed to the...
Yes Mitch, its a one off .22cal single shot made by Jerry a long time ago. Work time was divided maybe 60/40 engraving to wood carving. Thanks to all commenters for your kind words.