Unfortunately I can’t go back and ask these men, but Weatherby’s shop must have had some sort of apprentice program, or at least tutoring for craftsmen, in order to teach them gunsmithing and stockmaking in the Weatherby fashion, all of these men bore the mark of Weatherby in one form or another. Whenever I had them do any work for me, I always reminded them that I didn’t want it to look like a Weatherby, but sometimes it did anyway. Engilbert was very proficient at inlaying the typical elongated Weatherby diamonds into the sides of bolt action sporters and although I’ve always thought that these things were rather bizarre looking, some men like them and several times while I was in Ole’s shop I saw him inlaying diamonds into both new as well as older rifle stocks. Ole always kept a supply of exotic woods on hand for diamond inlays, grip caps and nose caps. Mike Chang also favored the Weatherby design, one time I brought him a highwall Winchester as well as detailed drawings of my desired checkering pattern and a picture of a Stevens Schuetzen with a similar pattern. Although he followed my instructions and the finished stock looked wonderful, he hated it and thought it looked awful because it didn’t look like a Weatherby.
Last edited by Schutzenbob; 11/10/10 05:27 PM.
