Vanity Baby Chiefs

[RoyS]

Very nice indeed.

The gold coin inlay is a cracking idea, well done.

Cheerio,

Roy

 

[iskra]

I do appreciate creativity and individuality. I'm a romantic, even the worn pieces have a certain warmth & character to my liking. That said, where a 'resuscitation' candidate or the like is altered, I can appreciate such morphing into about anything desired.
I commend if morphing a 'clunker' toward individualized work of art!
Thanks for the Thread and...
Best!
John

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Y'all are very welcome! I'd have to do a deep search on this Forum to find the member who inspired me to have this custom work done. I am very pleased that I inspired others and that you have such gorgeous guns.

As you might recollect, in April of 2018 I had a devastating house fire. The next day or the day after that, as we went looking for items to salvage (most of the guns were in my safe and survived) we were in my bedroom and I turned to my friend and said, "My custom Model 64 was on my night stand." We could see that my night stand got soaked and smoked but was still standing, albeit in many inches of soot. I then said, pointing to the thickly sooted floor, "That gun is right there, buried under the rubble; I know it is or the firemen would have seen it and given it to me like the other things that they gave to me".

So we began to dig. VOILA!!! I was correct. My buddy is super handy with guns, he actually took them all to his home to clean them up, and he did the same with this one. The stocks are darker than they were but the gun is as usable as it was before the fire and fit for every day carry.

I know y'all needed to know this since this thread was resurrected from

04-16-2018, 09:10 PM

and the fire happened on 04-18-2018, 5:31 AM.

A lot can happen in two days!!!!!

 

[NavySCPO]

Y'all are very welcome! I'd have to do a deep search on this Forum to find the member who inspired me to have this custom work done. I am very pleased that I inspired others and that you have such gorgeous guns.

As you might recollect, in April of 2018 I had a devastating house fire. The next day or the day after that, as we went looking for items to salvage (most of the guns were in my safe and survived) we were in my bedroom and I turned to my friend and said, "My custom Model 64 was on my night stand." We could see that my night stand got soaked and smoked but was still standing, albeit in many inches of soot. I then said, pointing to the thickly sooted floor, "That gun is right there, buried under the rubble; I know it is or the firemen would have seen it and given it to me like the other things that they gave to me".

So we began to dig. VOILA!!! I was correct. My buddy is super handy with guns, he actually took them all to his home to clean them up, and he did the same with this one. The stocks are darker than they were but the gun is as usable as it was before the fire and fit for every day carry.

I know y'all needed to know this since this thread was resurrected from and the fire happened on 04-18-2018, 5:31 AM.

A lot can happen in two days!!!!!

You better believe it...the world can change in two seconds! At 5:30 am, a sound sleeper may have suffered much worse than you did Senior, glad you are all safe and sound.

But your friend did a great job with that one, hardly looks like it was in a fire.

Now...Inquiring minds want to know, how did the safe work in the fire? Many of us spend a small fortune on Browning, Liberty or other safes. Likewise we've all seen pictures of the inside of those safes after a fire, and the damaged or ruined guns that were supposed to have been protected.

And BTW when I say 'those' safes with damage, I'm not referring to Browning or Liberty, just safes in general.