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New School Pistols
« on: January 03, 2018, 06:44:51 PM »
I`m trying out Rich`s new terminology for these "fantasy" pistols. Before I built the rifle for my father  that I posted yesterday, I built these for my mother . Come on , you don`t think I would leave Mom out do you? The brass barrel is from Rayl , with a M&G continental lock. The stock was a scrap piece I got from Jack Garner about 20 years ago, I like the way the figure follows the grip. The Cherry stock wood came from a friend , it blew over in his yard in 1975. These are from my own mind, not really copied directly from old ones.DISCLAIMER!! , I no longer wear my tinfoil hat when designing !! it gets in the way of my optivisor ::)    Thanks Nate












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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2018, 08:37:31 PM »
Beautiful pistols, I think both of them look great.
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2018, 09:38:36 PM »
They look good to me.
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2018, 10:13:51 PM »
Beautiful pistols. I would be proud to have them my collection.
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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2018, 11:55:50 PM »
Nate, you're a good son! I wish I had a brace of new "School Pistols", the spring semester starts next week.  ;D

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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2018, 12:23:08 AM »
I like em'  Beautiful work
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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2018, 12:49:20 AM »
  Nate you were a good boy...or you new how to impress your folks...cause you certainly have impressed us...nice job...!

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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2018, 01:09:33 AM »
I like the pistols. I bet it cost a lot of labor to make as nice as that.
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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2018, 01:34:18 AM »
Awesome pistols! Will we be seeing those in Alabama?

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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2018, 02:37:48 AM »
I like the carving and engraving on the steel barreled pistol.
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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2018, 03:33:01 AM »
I like em both ;D
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2018, 03:46:45 AM »
Beautiful Work! I would love to be able to do that kind of engraving.

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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2018, 04:09:50 AM »
Nice work!  I especially like the brass barreled one.  Cool tang carving.  :-)  God Bless,   Marc

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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2018, 03:28:01 PM »
Nice looking pistols!  I like them both, but am really drawn to the carving design and layout on the steel barreled one.  Great job!


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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2018, 05:35:54 PM »
I LOVE the Lehigh style, rifle or pistol.  Steel barrel carving is very much Lehigh !  I like it a lot.
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Re: New School Pistols
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2018, 11:30:40 PM »
I really like both of them. The architecture on both guns is really bold, that's the first thing that comes to mind. Cool contemporary school guns in my book. BJH
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