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General discussion => Contemporary Longrifle Collecting => Topic started by: G-Man on September 14, 2008, 03:30:17 PM
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I got my first glimpse of the rifle that Hershel, Frank and John House built for the CLA auction. It is on display at Friendship this weekend.
I won't really try to describe it too much - other than it is unbelievable. Classic Woodbury with little elements everywhere on it borrowed from original guns and reinterpreted in House artistry. To me its like when you look at your kids faces and all of a sudden you'll catch a glimpse of a long gone parent, grandparent, or someone else in your family - familiar yet all their own too.
Yes I bought tickets. Yes I will buy more before the raffle drawing!
Bought one for my daughter too - I am hoping that she will let dad shoot it at least once if she wins. ;)
Guy
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I've been checking the website, but they still don'y have any photos. I thought they might be holding off until the CLA show, but we are past that now, so.......let the rest of us see this!!!!!
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Also, for those of us who never get to Friendship, how do we buy tickets?? No fair keeoping it a secret Guy!! ;D
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Also, for those of us who never get to Friendship, how do we buy tickets??
Tim,
This is a logic test. :D
If you can make it to the CLA show, why can't you make it to Friendship. It's just on the other side of the river.
Also, it's a CLA auction.......why didn't you buy tickets when you were there?
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What a D-- fine answer tof
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I was told by David Wright (who had delivered the gun for display at Friendship) that photos of this rifle will be made available to the ALR site before the end of the week. Rick Lambert Studios took the photographs and from what I 've seen they depict the rifle beautifully.
Richard Nicholas
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Re: CLA House Brothers Hand Made Rifle Project "An American Tradition"
Fellows, I've been following the worthwhile discussions about the House Brothers Project and think maybe as chairman of the project, I can weigh in and answer a few questions about it. Without getting lengthy, the background is this:
The CLF (Contemporary Longrifle Foundation, which is the educational & fund raising arm of the CLA) was approached in 2007 by the House Brothers; Hershel, Frank and John to build a completely hand made rifle for the CLA to raise funds. As we all know, building a totally hand made rifle is a rarity today as only a handful of makers can do this. It is truly "Following the Tradition' of our predecessors. Because this rifle will be (now is) a one-of-a-kind work of art, the CLF decided to give as many people an opportunity to own this fine rifle as can, so rather than auction it as we normally do, we decided to raffle it over a period of a year. The drawing will be held at our annual show on August 15, 2009. Tickets are $5 each, 5 for $20, or 25 for $100.
The rifle is now complete and was unveiled at the CLA Show in August. And as we all expected, it is a superb rifle - a beauty, and the boys have outdone themselves. It is a Woodbury Style Rifle for which they are well known - iron mounted with a tasteful smattering of silver. Based on a Southern Virginia style of firearm - 45 caliber - as Hershel says, "A big early Virginia gun".
The rifle is being displayed all this week at Friendship in the CLA booth on the Commercial Row and I recommend anyone who wants to see it, go by and take a close look. Considering the difficulty of transporting and displaying the rifle and its plexiglass case, it won't be out too much in the future for public view, so if you want to see it in person, I suggest you take a look at it at Friendship this week and next weekend. However, full color brochures are being printed which will show the rifle, detail the whole project and tell how to buy tickets. As you all know, the CLA is a non profit organization and our fund raising efforts go toward education, museum exhibits, publications, and promoting our contemporary artists.
Photos: As Richard has noted, we now have excellent photos of the rifle made by renowned gun photographer Ric Lambert, (just got these Thursday and I delivered the rifle to Friendship on Friday) and intend to post the photos on the www.Housebrothersproject.com website this week. However, if someone can tell me how to post photos here, by Gawd, we'll show them here first, then later you can go to the website to see more extensive photography of the rifle and the complete building process, too.
Thanks for the opportunity to share this with all of you. Give me this week to get the website caught up and then you can keep up with the schedule of the rifle, get info on buying tickets, etc.
Let me know how to get photos on here.
H. David Wright
Chairman, CLF board of Directors
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David,
If you currently have the photo's on a website and give me the links to them I will put the photo's in this "Thread" or if you don't have them on a website, email them to me at tdg23113@comcast.net I will put them on my website and link to them from this thread.
However, if someone can tell me how to post photos here, by Gawd, we'll show them here first, then later you can go to the website to see more extensive photography of the rifle and the complete building process, too.
Or you can do it yourself as shown in the tutorial that Acer put in the Tutorial section of this forum. ( http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=10.0 )
Thanks for doing this, I saw the rifle in person at the bar-b-q at Frank and Lally's home and it was one fine piece of work!
Dennis
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Below are the photos of the House Brother's rifle. Great photos and thanks to David Wright for allowing us to post them on ALR.
Dennis
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Save your money .......... I have great intentions on owning this gun !!!!!
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Sorry AMartin I bought the winning ticket at Friendship Saturday. ;D
Bruce
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Oh momma I want bad that rifle! ;D
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Heres a link to some more pictures of the rifle. Clicking on the ictures will enlarge them for a good view. Try to keep the druel off your keyboard gents. http://housebrothersproject.com/gallery/index.php?action=view&gll=1
DMR
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Thanks for the link. I have been waiting to see some pictures of this rifle for some time now.
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Some gun, huh. I can't figure out how they get that warm, mellow look to a gun, and it seems to exist on everyone they
build. Must be that "taller" they use. You guys are probably wondering what that is, well, Herschel uses that word to
describe that hole in a buttstock to hold "taller". They really are a unique bunch of guys......Don
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That's "gun porn" if I've ever seen it!!!!