These are a bunch of work, but they are all special. This one very soon now - for Alice

Have really put all into it.
Gary

Gary,

It looks beautiful. A true treasure.

Keith

Gary
I’ve always been amazed at your ability to bring out the VERY BEST in any item and then offer your vision. That mammoth looks great the way you’ve chosen and polished it . The fit is truly outstanding and I speak from experience . As you know I carry mine in my pocket loose and I had an insert ( antler ) come unglued . After talking with you about self gluing it , I was amazed at how it snapped into the relief cut on the aluminum frame . I’m certain it’s machined to fit within .002 !
It’s a definite insight into how tight your tolerances are that most people wouldn’t even realize .

Thanks
Kurt

Awesome Knife !! I am sure Alice will be ecstatic when she gets it.

Thanks for taking us through the build, Bob

Thank you Keith, Kurt, Bob, and all of my Readers.

It’s truly like “coming home”, when I get to read a friendly comment from folks who have had a continued interest in my work. You know I developed my skills over several decades of very hard work and study. If I wasn’t working on product, I was testing product. That met closing up the shooting club’s range at dusk; and loading up tanks, tools, ammo boxes, range papers, and rifles cases ... in the dark. Then driving home most of an hour, and unloading everything. I did that year after year; until I got access to open fields and outfitted a box trailer with shooting benches, work benches, and set it up with a generator, lights, heat, rain gear, tools, and everything needed for productive range study and proofing of my guns. Then I’d repack all that (often in the dark still - hummmm), for the trips home. Haha. Experience and proofing doesn’t come free.

After all these preps, at the top of my game ... the opposition forces set in. After that it’s been “fight to work”. Find the path, through the opposing migraines and chronic pains, where I can still perform Barnes Quality work. Being aware of the handicap really drags down the satisfaction of working. When I finish a piece, I realize it took a minimum of three times what it should have taken, but it’s right. It’s well made. It’s Barnes.

So it’s nice when someone notices and says so. Thank you. I wish more finished pieces got to the “pictures and shipping phase”, but I do my absolute best. The opposition has scored some hard hits on my business. I appreciate the guys and ladies, who have stuck with me. Thank you. It means a lot.

Gary



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Just a few more yellow DOTS To turn Green

Almost there. Hey - these things almost build themselves! Haha.

Gary

To show that all forging, machining, and heat treating are straight.

Now, when assembled, in order to allow room for oil, smooth floating from position to position, and taking into account side spring pressure, you might see an atom or three difference from this as it’s used, but it’s life; “you can torque it tight, or give it room to breathe.” Haha

Shouldn’t be long now.

Gary