PA24, JDW, Italiansxs, Bill Davis, Franchi, Twicw Barrel, George L, King Brown, SDH-MT, Birdog,
thanks for your compliments, putting these 20 Ga guns back in the hunting/shooting fields in reasonable shape was a matter of patience and persistence above anything else. I am sure that it could have been done better if being more experienced, even with the limited means and skills available here. Your commentaries on the seemingly little expense is partly a reflexion of local economic conditions and perhaps lack of demand from our small shooting fraternity. Our gunsmiths & stockmakers have a frugal life indeed!
Bill Schodlatz,
the Víctor Sarasqueta´s new stock was made from European walnut (Juglans regia) grown in the Chilean Central Valley.
Rockdoc,
Here there are some photos from the A. Fox as it looked with it previous wood and before barrel blacking.
Pictures of the A. Fox barrels during and after polishing in Juan González workshop.
The Sarasqueta gun together with its previous original stock, couldn´t find the old fore-end´s wood.
The A.Fox AE and Víctor Sarasqueta SLE side by side as they look now.
Juan González in his workshop in Santiago, he works independently with his brother Sergio and stockmaker Reyes but under the same roof.
Carlos "Charly" Reyes, the stockmaker that had to much backlog work to handle the Fox restocking, he has made several stock bending and stock extensions on my shotguns, many gun owners have a very high esteem of him despite his work deadlines are almost never accomplished.
Stockmaker/Gunsmith Mario Zalava, at is workshop in Quillota, IMO a raising star in the local repair/refurbish trade. Mario has made several works for me: New stocks and repairs on five shotguns (AYA Mod.53, Jos. Winkler, Darne R15, A.Fox AE and Víctor Sarasqueta) and one drilling repair-restocking (Emil Eckoldt, Shul). I am preparing a thread on the drilling stock work he did for me.
Regards,
EJSXS
