For those of you with a love of custom revolvers and deep pockets, Hamilton Bowen's classic, The Custom Revolver, $550, shipped.
About the deep pockets needed, I don't mean the $550 I am charging. That's the relatively inexpensive part of the book's aquisition. From Abebooks today:
(My goodness, he's offering a ~$200 discount! Whatta deal!)
What I am talking about is this lovely book is going to convince you to buy a Bowen custom revolver. It did me. I bought a mid 1950s S&W HD. Used, beat up police gun from Pueblo, Co. Had Bowen convert it to a .45 Colt. Paul Persinger made some carved ivory steerheads. Dan Love engraved it. I wrote an article for the S&W Journal about it. It's still shown on Bowen's website, last I looked. (Yep. Top of the page and April, 2007: http://www.bowenclassicarms.com/workshop.html) Had well over $5K in that gorgeous gun when, like a fool, I sold it to a guy who chased after it for a couple of years. (I thought if I finally tell him he can have it for what I have in it, he'll go away. Instead, he bought it, damn it.)
So, consider yourself warned: Buy this at your peril.
(Condition is about new, I'd say. It's over 20 years old, but in great shape.)
About the deep pockets needed, I don't mean the $550 I am charging. That's the relatively inexpensive part of the book's aquisition. From Abebooks today:
(My goodness, he's offering a ~$200 discount! Whatta deal!)
What I am talking about is this lovely book is going to convince you to buy a Bowen custom revolver. It did me. I bought a mid 1950s S&W HD. Used, beat up police gun from Pueblo, Co. Had Bowen convert it to a .45 Colt. Paul Persinger made some carved ivory steerheads. Dan Love engraved it. I wrote an article for the S&W Journal about it. It's still shown on Bowen's website, last I looked. (Yep. Top of the page and April, 2007: http://www.bowenclassicarms.com/workshop.html) Had well over $5K in that gorgeous gun when, like a fool, I sold it to a guy who chased after it for a couple of years. (I thought if I finally tell him he can have it for what I have in it, he'll go away. Instead, he bought it, damn it.)
So, consider yourself warned: Buy this at your peril.
(Condition is about new, I'd say. It's over 20 years old, but in great shape.)
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