Frank J Warner wrote:
I'm not going to take sides in the gun debate, but I know great art
when I see it:

http://www.webpark.ru/comment/56708

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-Frank


I love the stuff where the case colors are left to show under the
engraving...

Too much of it seems to be in a style an opera designer I once worked
with called "Circus Wagon Baroque".

Stuart

"Stuart Wheaton" wrote in message
...
Frank J Warner wrote:
I'm not going to take sides in the gun debate, but I know great art
when I see it:

http://www.webpark.ru/comment/56708

Caution, not for dial-up. 101 pictures of extraordinary firearms all on
one page.
The site may be blocked for some of you with parental or employer
controls installed.

-Frank


I love the stuff where the case colors are left to show under the
engraving...

If you look closely, particularly at the H&H shotgun with the spot
case-coloring, I think you'll see that the gun was engraved first, and then
colored.

It looks like they used a torch and cyanide salts, rather than a bath. It's
very nice.


Too much of it seems to be in a style an opera designer I once worked with
called "Circus Wagon Baroque".

Stuart

Yeah. They didn't know when to stop. I'd be afraid to shoot some of them,
with all of that deep, German-style engraving. g

I really like the etching of the boars and other animals.

--
Ed Huntress

Ed Huntress wrote:
"Stuart Wheaton" wrote in message
...
Frank J Warner wrote:
I'm not going to take sides in the gun debate, but I know great art
when I see it:

http://www.webpark.ru/comment/56708

Caution, not for dial-up. 101 pictures of extraordinary firearms all on
one page.
The site may be blocked for some of you with parental or employer
controls installed.

-Frank

I love the stuff where the case colors are left to show under the
engraving...

If you look closely, particularly at the H&H shotgun with the spot
case-coloring, I think you'll see that the gun was engraved first, and then
colored.

I would expect that engraving a case-hardened piece of steel would be
difficult, at best.

"RBnDFW" wrote in message
...
Ed Huntress wrote:
"Stuart Wheaton" wrote in message
...
Frank J Warner wrote:
I'm not going to take sides in the gun debate, but I know great art
when I see it:

http://www.webpark.ru/comment/56708

Caution, not for dial-up. 101 pictures of extraordinary firearms all on
one page.
The site may be blocked for some of you with parental or employer
controls installed.

-Frank

I love the stuff where the case colors are left to show under the
engraving...

If you look closely, particularly at the H&H shotgun with the spot
case-coloring, I think you'll see that the gun was engraved first, and
then colored.

I would expect that engraving a case-hardened piece of steel would be
difficult, at best.

Well, color case-hardening is decorative and not often really a serious
hardening job. It typically doesn't have any significant effect on surface
hardness. The depth of carbon penetration with most methods rarely is more
than a few millionths to tens of millionths of an inch. It often isn't even
quenched.

The old Stevens Favorite and Crackshot receivers were offered with a very
nice (for mass production) color case hardening job at one time, and that
was a bit thicker, but still only less than one tenth -- not enough to mean
much.

--
Ed Huntress