Thanks for the compliment 'JDW'.Its all a matter of common sense, and most of the Gunmakers who were Apprentices at Purdeys in the 1940s-1950s were a real common lot'No Technical school,No University Educated 'types'. My lot' were the survivors of Hitlers 6yrs of trying to 'Whack' our families in and around London..I think this had a lot to do with us all having to 'Use our Common Sense as we entered the World of Hand Built Gunmaking in London.(And of course the 'Birmingham & the Provincial Gunmakers who survived the 6years of Devastation also.I even had a friend or 2 that'Put-Up' Brummie Guns) Hope Jack Rowe "Mr Brum-Gun" reads this!One point about the wood in the 'Head' of the 28b it was not in any way'Spalted' Dry Rotted'Pithy'it had been well seasoned, the action trigger-plate,lock-plates were inletted to the high standard that Boss guns and rifles are built to.I have a Workbench test that I can(and do)do to show a client just how well the inletting has been done, and the wood has to be really up to the standard that is expected on a 'Top Quality Gun' Donot try this on a Original L.C.Smith. I did and the new Stock cost me 40 hrs of my'Pub'Time!(I own LCs and shot Live Pigeons with one, many times) Crossed Chisles.
