Is the question "Who does the most historically accurate by BRAND or MFG color case hardening in the US currently?"
There is an ocean of colorists these days.
Every brand seems to have niche practitioners.
Rephrasing the question.... Who does the
most accurate representation of
Parker Bros. original case colors without them being too muddy, or too dark, or too mottled, etc.
To me the price isn't really an object if I get the
quality and
accuracy I'm looking for.
I recently had the opportunity to examine a Parker Trojan (no engraving to obfuscate the color) that had been redone by Doug about twenty years ago and I honestly thought it was an original 99% gun. It was practically indistinguishable from the dozens of true original very high condition Parkers I have examined. This is the kind of work I'm looking for but I don't know if Doug's people still use that identical formula/process. I guess I'll have to talk with them/him to find out.
