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The company I'm associated with has some uber-technical testing equipment that they bought as surplus from NASA. I'm not an engineer, so I can't tell you exactly what it is. When I get around to doing the tests (on other makes as well as Bakers) I'll be sure and post the details. I'm very interested in this, as it has direct application to my own artisan case coloring efforts. I've got some pretty screwy ideas about how to manipulate some of the variables in order to recreate patterns. We'll see...
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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sold for over a grand...time to fire up the torch again?
ah luv thu smell ov burnin receiver metal in da mornin...
Last edited by ed good; 10/15/14 09:02 AM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Stop you teasing, Ed! (Although you provided first laugh of the day.)
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Ed,
You should teach a class on it. Personally, if you described a gun as being "Superficially Recolored for Aesthetic Purposes" rather that attempting to represent it as "Restored", I'd have no problem with it. Then, a purchaser can make an informed decision.
Ken
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Stop you teasing, Ed! (Although you provided first laugh of the day.) Comrade King, you never fail to deliver. Of course you find the "Willful Perpetration of Fraud" to be a "Laugh". No doubt you found "You Can Keep Your Doctor" to be a "Laugh" as well. It sounds like the "Story of Your Life". Care to step into anything else today?
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I agree with Drew about the cyanide colors. Batavia area newspaper article: http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/blogs/...19bb2963f4.htmlPertinent comments on production of guns at Batavia: During these years, the gun-making part of the operation was gradually phased out and in 1919, it was sold to the D.H. Folsom Company of Meriden, Conn. (which merged with the Crescent Firearms Company). The era of the Baker gun in Batavia had ended. The Batavia factory was reorganized and turned exclusively to the manufacture of automobile parts. Daniel W. Tomlinson was named company president. Pretty sure this is incorrect. Folsom had nothing to do with Meriden, Connecticut and there is a great deal of confusion between Meriden Fire Arms Co. and Crescent which was located in Norwich, CT
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You are correct Joe. And Folsom acquired Crescent in 1893. 
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