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One School!
« on: October 16, 2012, 11:00:42 AM »
Are there any builders here who devote their ambition to just one school?
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Offline Acer Saccharum

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Re: One School!
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2012, 03:16:49 PM »
Not me. I like Germanic influenced guns predominantly. But that covers a lot of territory.

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Re: One School!
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2012, 03:28:02 PM »
Quote from: DB on October 16, 2012, 11:00:42 AM
Are there any builders here who devote their ambition to just one school?

There are far too many interesting rifles to do that.
Dickerts and Becks and Armstrongs and Hawks and Hawken and Bedford maybe a side by side double and...
Well you get the idea.

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Re: One School!
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2012, 03:47:00 PM »
I have to agree with what's been said. Too many great styles with interest in many! I did post a reply to this topic and then deleted it.  Something about having a masters degree from the School of Hard Knocks. That's one school I can lay a strong claim to.
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Re: One School!
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2012, 03:49:32 PM »
Seeing I only build spec LRs and don't have to accommodate customers' fancies, I've "whittled" my choices down  to 2 schools......  Lancaster and Bucks County. If I were to only have one choice...it would be Bucks County.  Also  these 2 schoiols seem to have wider appeal and sell better. .....Fred
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Re: One School!
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2012, 05:12:21 PM »
My school has many and diverse courses which have led me to a Phd. in making meat. ;D
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Offline Eric Smith

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Re: One School!
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2012, 10:29:42 PM »
A builder could probably reach a higher degree of proficiency in architecture and style by building only one school.
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Re: One School!
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2012, 07:11:14 AM »
No one can build one school and make a living at it. However you can define a school. The only builder that has done that and passed it on is Allen Martin.
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Re: One School!
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2012, 01:36:25 PM »
York County----George Schroyer
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2012, 05:03:57 PM »
I disagree that one cannot work successfully in one school of gunbuilding, Hershel House and the Woodbury School being the one that comes to my mind first. 
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Re: One School!
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2012, 05:14:42 PM »
I'm retired, so I'm not trying to make a living at building rifles, just a little extra pocket money and money for more parts. That being said, I build rifles on spec., and I like to build what I like to shoot and that'd be Lancaster and York schools. A couple others strike my fancy and when er,,, if I ever feel competant in these schools maybe I'll branch out. ;)
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Re: One School!
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2012, 05:24:48 PM »
My friend Randy Weitzel only builds Bedfords.  He's done about 80 of them and they are works of
art.  Yet you never hear of him.  He doesn't attend shows any longer and keeps a very low profile.
He grew up in Bedford and bird dogged Bedford rifles for Dr. Whisker.  Building is not his full time occupation
but I think he is retiring soon.  Anyway, there are folks who stick to one school.  If success is measured by
the end product.  He's a success.  Just called him and he is finishing a side by side Bedford rifle with
barrels he rifled on a bench he made by hand.
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