Ed Westerly
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
I haven't posted for awhile, so I am jumping in with a long winded, multi-picture thread. It starts out sad, but ends well, I think. In July of 2011, my father's younger brother died. (that's the sad part) My uncle was a gun collector of sorts, collecting mostly handguns from gun shows and garage sales. His collection went to my cousin, who is the same age as I am. When we were going through my uncle's guns, we came across this..
A Coneticutt (sp???) Valley Arms kit gun of the Colt 1849 pocket. It had been assembled, but not timed, polished or finished in any way. I asked my cousin if he would ever finish it, and he said no. I asked if I could have it to finish. He said o.k. as long as I put his dad's name on it somewhere. I timed it, polished it, inlayed brass wire in the barrels, sent it to Doug Turnbull to be rust blued, and French greyed the scroll work. I also selectively nickel plated the scrolls on the brass areas. Hope you enjoy the results.
A Coneticutt (sp???) Valley Arms kit gun of the Colt 1849 pocket. It had been assembled, but not timed, polished or finished in any way. I asked my cousin if he would ever finish it, and he said no. I asked if I could have it to finish. He said o.k. as long as I put his dad's name on it somewhere. I timed it, polished it, inlayed brass wire in the barrels, sent it to Doug Turnbull to be rust blued, and French greyed the scroll work. I also selectively nickel plated the scrolls on the brass areas. Hope you enjoy the results.
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