One of the things he did beautifully was seamless stock extensions with well-matched figure and grain. When he retired, there was no one who could do his quality work on stock extensions, ....
The Birminghanm gunmaker who more than 40-50 years ago allowed John Foster to visit his gun shop and observe and learn the proper way to sleeve shotgun barrels (and who apprenticed as a stocker at S. Wright & Sons, or Churchill's I cannot remember,60 plus years ago) continues to work well into his mid seventies producing stock work the quality and beauty that others (both retired and still working) in the gun trade tried and try to emulate. From time to time some of this Birmingham gunmaker's shotguns (BLE's) with his name engraved on the action appear at auctions in the UK.
