The July '52 issue of the American Rifleman magazine did a nice article on Roy Southgate. It showed Southgate as a thin man with long dark hair, much in the style of a C&W crooner, and said he was 37 at the time. The author went on to say that out of a small 20 x 25 shop Southgate made entire guns, locks, stocks, and at least some of his own barrels (in lengths from 37-47", the former being the more common). Casting and case hardening were part of the normal operations, as well as horn and mold making. With two assistants, the shop's production volume amounted to about one gun a week. From the rudimentary pictures the guns appeared to be well finished and style-wise perhaps a step or two above what would pass for a flintlock in a big-box retail store.
