At a chosen point in the wood refinishing process the checkering gets re cut…Chris Dawe takes care of that for me these days…and does a wonderful job every time.
Once the wood is back there are still quite a few things left to do, along with the inspection of every individual part, all the pins/screws need to be dressed down and engraved, as well as the blacking of the barrels and hardware
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The barrel face is dressed/jewelled in the original fashion as judged from the partial pre existing vertical lines
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Then final assembly begins…
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