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Mike Brooks engraving
« on: August 20, 2024, 03:11:21 AM »
 hi all , has anyone seen or had done the Kibler fowling piece engraving that mike offered??

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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2024, 04:48:22 AM »
Not yet, but you know that it will be good!
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2024, 04:49:45 PM »
hi all , has anyone seen or had done the Kibler fowling piece engraving that mike offered??
I'm setting up to do my first one today.

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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2024, 11:36:02 PM »
Wish there was a like button. :)
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2024, 11:44:52 PM »
Wish there was a like button. :)

 You wouldn’t like Brooks. He’s not very likable  8)
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2024, 11:51:00 PM »
Wish there was a like button. :)

 You wouldn’t like Brooks. He’s not very likable  8)
He is my kinda guy after 29 years dealing with not very likeable it comes naturally to me. ;D
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2024, 12:40:31 AM »
I heard tell that any rifle he engraves becomes surly and prone to argument.  ;D
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2024, 01:03:53 AM »
I heard tell that any rifle he engraves becomes surly and prone to argument.  ;D

I don't think that's true. (Yes......yes it is)

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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2024, 01:06:35 AM »
   Nothing wrong with Mike...he just tells ya what he thinks...! After about 400 guns built. He just might have learned a thing or two...!
  But if yeah need everything  sugar coated...maybe not...lol

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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2024, 01:22:42 AM »
I just finished this engraving and I have not darkened it yet.







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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2024, 02:54:26 AM »
That looks nice!  I’d enjoy seeing some pictures after darkening as well.

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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2024, 01:59:32 PM »
Looking good, Mike.
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2024, 03:41:17 PM »
Looking good, Mike.
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2024, 04:52:32 PM »
Bama, that's very nice and appropriate to a fowler.
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2024, 06:20:15 PM »
Wish there was a like button. :)

 You wouldn’t like Brooks. He’s not very likable  8)
Nobody can say he's boring and lacks a sense of humor.I have had only one bad experience with a gun maker and it was NOT Mike Brooks but it was a gun maker who told others my appearance looked like someone who had escaped from a Nazi death camp.He is no longer alive.
No,I did not harm him.
Bob Roller
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2024, 01:07:39 AM »
Bama, that's very nice and appropriate to a fowler.

I agree and I think Bama has been paid a great compliment when folks thought his engraving was done by Mike.
I know if I could engrave like either of them, I would be a very happy camper. However when I  tried engraving a simple piece it looked like I did it with my toes. :(
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2024, 12:34:39 PM »
Nice looking engraving bama.
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Re: Mike Brooks engraving
« Reply #17 on: August 23, 2024, 01:09:11 AM »
Beautiful work fellows sorry for the mistake.
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