• 01 Feb 2012
• ACGG, Hallmarking,
• work

          The American Custom Gunmakers Guild has a system in place for recording the details about the building of custom guns by its members. This is called ‘Hallmark... Continue →

• 07 Jan 2012
• ACGG, DSC, Gunmakers,
• news

This is the weekend for the Dallas Safari Club show and convention. This is a great time and it is a huge show. 30 ACGG members for the first time are displaying as a group and boy are we happy to be ... Continue →

• 26 Dec 2011
• ACGG, Dallas Safari Club, DSC, Gunmaker,
• news

  The Dallas Safari Club show is just around the corner. It runs January 5th thru the 8th. For the first time ever over 30 ACGG members will be displaying in a special ‘Gunmakers’ s... Continue →

• 23 Nov 2011
• gun calendar,
• news , Uncategorized

Now here is something that you need for your shop or gun room……and its for a good cause.. This is the 2012 custom gun calendar….  featuring the work of ACGG members The good people ... Continue →

• 23 Nov 2011
• engraving,
• news

Here is just a bit of a sneak preview of the collaborative display rifle for the 2012 Exhibition season…. Once again Al Lofgren of Michigan is the stockmaker and Brian Hochstrat of Idaho is the ... Continue →

• 01 Nov 2011
• Report from the field

              Here is a photo of good friend and client Richard Gerding with an elephant taken in September. The ivory goes an incredible  70.4 and 72.6 pounds on ... Continue →

• 13 Oct 2011
• Shop Tip

The photo here is of an E.J. Churchill 20 bore shotgun stocked by Jerry Fisher and in my shop for stock refinishing.  You can notice that I am using a clean piece of t-shirt for the rubbing and that... Continue →

• 04 Oct 2011
• Echols, stocks, synthetic, synthetic stock,
• news

  I am very happy to announce that I am in the final phase of testing a new item for my offerings. After years of disgust in observing the rather poor design and construction of synthetic stocks... Continue →

• 04 Oct 2011
• news

Just copy and paste the link http://www.youtube.com/embed/fA74gU_lBIU?hl=en&fs=1″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen> Continue →

• 03 Oct 2011
• Uncategorized

Here is a skirting package for Color case hardening a Jerry Fisher 1 screw grip cap. The purpose of the skirting is to help hold the color producing charcoal against the parts during the quench proce... Continue →