Indeed, I’m happy as a kid under the Christmas tree! Adrie did an excellent job, and I am grateful of this. Besides that, it will remind me of where I found during my working life that beautiful barrel, on a local market in Yemen, where it was lying between well worn Kalashnikovs, M16's, Turkish matchlocks and Mausers. The original 1815 lock by Casper Korte of Amsterdam, the city I was born 86 years ago. And even the ramrod tip is from a big piece of ebony I picked up locally in Cameroun....
I sincerely hope that Adrie will continue making beautiful things, and I will happily support him with all the spares I still have, knowing that I cannot wish a better friend to make good use of it!
