Hi Lee, I am curious about what appears to be pre existing scrolls in what I think is called the knuckle. I am referring to the two small scroll scroll sections on the bottom of the action in your 11/27 post. Or did you cut them?
Dan, they were already there. The gun was engraved and James Flynn cleaned off the engraving and is doing the stock work. The scrolls don't quite match what I am doing and I am pondering several options-leave them alone, modify to match my pattern better, or file out and put in my own.
I'm with Sam. If you file and reshape the knuckle there will be a gap between it and the iron when the shotgun is open.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I miss seeing these in progress pieces in person.
Or perhaps remove the scroll and Inlay steel or even gold to fill the void , may be owners initials. Beautiful work I love to see old guns being restored.:clapping:
I put some black dry erase in the cuts to help the photography. This is what appears a bit blotched and less refined and I still have to do the final sanding. A little bit of burr does an excellent job of grabbing the dry erase and making it look rough.
Your design and its execution is wonderful and all in the keeping of an original Fox--with the engraving several order of magnitude better quality than the original.
Did you use the enset to do the beaded work or did you do it punch and hammer or some other way?
In Utah is an hobbyist whose first name is Doug(you can find him on the Doublegunshop BBS) who does the finest barrel blacking in America. His work is the equal to the Johnson's in England who do the blacking for Purdeys.