I like jOE's suggestion of "hand fitted" as the most appropriate term for the kind of gunwork we all seem to enjoy here. Parkers were hand fitted from machined parts, so were the other American high grade makers, and most of the British, French, Italian, Spanish and German guns as well. Higher grade guns in each marque had more hand fitting, and lower grades had less. I have a Model 10 S&W new in the gold box from 1949 and the wood and metal fit is as nice as any gun I've ever handled. It appears to have been "hand fitted". Alas, no more except maybe at the custom shop. Even Hacker Martin, the longrifle gunmaker of Foxfire fame, used a handmade boring machine to bore and rifle his barrels. I think the difference we seek to make here is between guns that lack most of that "hand fitting" and those that employ a lot of it. It is not all or none, just more or less. Even my $200 Eibar special had sear notches that were hand stoned--just not very well. JMHO.
