I was told by the local S&W sales man that LH started the modern semi custom built guns. It started with the 24 3" RB with combats, this wasnt a standard catalog item. LH brought the idea to S&W, S&W wasnt to keen on the idea and thought it was doomed. Not wanting to turn down a large customer S&W said sure we will make them for you but we need a minimum order of one million dollars, so it was an order of 5000 guns. This set the stage for the next run of 624s and so on.

Now from reading here and other places it seems the original run of 24s werent selling all so fast. S&W had quite an over run of them and LH didnt want them. So S&W just let them sell through regular sales channels. The exact number is not know, 5000 LH guns seems to be the accepted number but some folks say it was more, some less. The number of overruns is unknown also, some have said close to one thousand others a few hundred.

I was also told that LH got the original idea from the Jovino customs that were quite the rage.

To me ( and I am no one ) if it was a LH model, its a LH, regardless of the distributor, its a LH concept and exactly the same.


LH and Talo seem to know what buyers like and want. They did the same custom built with other manufacturers also.

They are all desirable because of the features they have.

As far as making more, if they can sell them, they will make them.

Collecting current production guns is difficult at best.

Older ones like the 24 and 624 (others also) cannot be made exactly the same way again. They cannot be remade and be exactly the same.