Can anyone identify this "Artistic" Rifle?

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So, my day job is as an artist, so when I stumbled across this I was immediately baffled and thrilled. This seems to be a collection of unique wares produced using only the most exclusive and exotic materials and processes.

This particular piece is some type of bolt-gun, but I can't identify it. Obviously the stock is the artist's own design, but what rifle is it built off of?

http://store.srulirecht.com/collections/frontpage/products/by-two-hairs-is-sr420
 
It all hurt my brain until I saw this:

Company address:
Hólmaslóð 4
Reykjavík 101 – Fishpacking District
Iceland

Then everything became clear.

I can't figure out what the action is. But I don't see anything like the asking price in it.
 
The rifle didn't appear all that exotic to me. Lots of custom stocks out there and most appear a lot more functional

and their model clearly isn't aware of gun safety basics.
 
taliv said:
The rifle didn't appear all that exotic to me. Lots of custom stocks out there and most appear a lot more functional

and their model clearly isn't aware of gun safety basics.
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I think it's the production process on the stock: "...from hand cut maple, sun-bleached, rubbed down with black horse hide and stripped of colour."

The mechanical bits are probably unmodified, I'm sure the insane price tag is for the one-of-a-kind stock hand-crafted by some famous-ish dude. It's art. Don't ask too many questions, right?
 
Beautiful stock! The shoulder looks like a guitar body...very well done. I like this quite a bit.

Not only does the model have no idea of gun safety basics, he looks like some bum that is taking up arms in an Occupy movement. Just needs an iPhone and a Starbucks and the look will be complete.
 
MattShlock said:
I'm going with this...
http://store.srulirecht.com/products/bro-is-sr315
...and a bargain at only 570 Euros!
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Well I certainly wouldn't buy the rifle without buying that along with it. Very practical. I like it. :D

There.... are not words to describe this:

http://store.srulirecht.com/collections/concentrated/products/forget-me-knot

In a documented one-time surgery-performance, a plastic surgeon removed a 110mm x 10mm strip of skin from the abdomen of Sruli Recht. The subcutaneous tissue and epidermis was then scraped from the dermis, which is stripped of fat by hand and blade, before being salted, and tanned with an Alum solution. The resulting leather from the dermis was prepared for use in the ring, Forget Me Knot.

SR661 - Leather made from the abdomen skin of Sruli Recht, mounted to a 24 carat gold band.
There will be only one of this piece made.
The Forget Me Knot band is presented with a DNA certificate and a complete DVD documentary of the process, surgery and interviews with the involved team.

Forget Me Knot
SR661, Nov/Dec 2012, 1 of 1
Anthropodermic leather and 24 carat gold
€350,000
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Oooh here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8SsW-4DjI&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
 
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rubbed down with black horse hide
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Well isn't that special!!

Also 'Special' is a right-hand bolt-action, and a right-hand artiest holding it right-handed.
With a left hand cheek-piece on the stupid stock!!

Soon though, another fool will be parted with his money I betcha!!

rc
 
Also 'Special' is a right-hand bolt-action, and a right-hand artiest holding it right-handed.
With a left hand cheek-piece on the stupid stock!!
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The cheek weld is symmetrical for both sides (right and left).
 
If you paid that much ... how much can you sue them for when that thin layer of Aramid does not quite do what you hoped?
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But the Aramid could be stuffed in the gaping chest wound. That has to account for something. ;)
 
HOKAI. Fine art is weird and expensive, we know. And just think, I have to deal with stuff like this a lot.

Bringing things back on topic, any clues on the rifle's make/model?
 
Magnuumpwr said:
I am so relieved that the skin used to make that ring wasn't circumcised skin!:what:
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Well...he has worked in foreskin.
Of a whale. :eek:

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Hmmm.... New shooting gloves maybe?
Fitted and unlined glove from basking shark skin, with the mic-rose thorns inside. Should you put your hand in, you will discover that the thorns, all directed to slant inward, will lock your hand in place in the manner of, ten thousand fishhooks. Should you attempt to remove it, the thousands of thorns will bite into the skin. You can put the gloves on, but to remove them would mean to cut them off. Gloves for life, or for one wear - the ultimate and final commitment.
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http://store.srulirecht.com/collections/category/products/a-lasting-impression-is-sr341

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:what:

I can't help but think that this is the sort of stuff that transdimensional aliens would commission as mementos of their time on earth.
 
Wow, all of those pieces of "art" are fairly strange, but the skin ring really raises the bar.
 
Given the price for that ring I'd say that Sruli Recht has a rather high opinion of his position in life and the value of his DNA.

As a model airplane builder I remember seeing an art display of "things" that were supposed to be light and airy art planes. You want to see true art? Get on You Tube and search for "indoor fai models". If you have never seen such a thing it'll blow your mind. Art shmart, model builders like these take art and make it perform.
 
I don't care how "designer" and "fashionable" you try and make a rifle stock, it's not worth that.
 
I don't care how "designer" and "fashionable" you try and make a rifle stock, it's not worth that.
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Completely agree...at that price. As nutty as the rest of that crap on the site is, I will say that I like the aesthetics of the stock. 8,000 euros? Not by a long shot. Maybe a few hundred, if that.
 
I don't even know what half the stuff on that website is. For nearly $12K, Bjork can keep her rifle.

Also, that is THE strangest website, with the strangest "stuff" I have ever seen. Gold Bless Missouri.
 
Was anyone actually able to ID the rifle? It has a serial number so it must be real. But I can't quite put my finger on the type. The receiver has to be something common enough for a long SN with a prefix.
 
I'm not sure I would buy a rifle, let alone a product, from a site that sells a "penis laser cut from horse hide and hand assembled."

That site is all kinds of weird, nonfunctional, and overpriced.
 
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