Standing Wolf
Member in memoriam
I recently bought a three-inch pre-agreement Smith & Wesson model 629 from one of our members. It was an impulse buy, of course. I thought it over for a good ten seconds, then beamed him an E-mail. It's a dandy gun and a pretty good pointer and shooter—two-inch groups at fifty feet with both light target loads and the heavy-recoiling stuff—and would make a perfect open carry gun. It's a big large for me to conceal comfortably, but I live in Colorado, where open carry is legal.
As you can see from the attached snap shot, it has an unfluted, fairly brightly polished cylinder. I'm thinking about having the cylinder engraved with a standing wolf, with some pine trees and mountains in the background. I'm planning to have the rest of the gun bead-blasted, so it's just the cylinder I'd like to have engraved. I'm not looking for scrolls, deep cuts, gold inlays, et cetera. I don't feel obliged to find the most expensive or slowest engraver in the nation. I spent awhile earlier today at a site showcasing the work of lots of engravers, but didn't see anything that tripped my trigger. I like the look of fancy, elaborate engraving, but I'd like this gun to be a bit more subdued than that.
Ideas, anybody?
As you can see from the attached snap shot, it has an unfluted, fairly brightly polished cylinder. I'm thinking about having the cylinder engraved with a standing wolf, with some pine trees and mountains in the background. I'm planning to have the rest of the gun bead-blasted, so it's just the cylinder I'd like to have engraved. I'm not looking for scrolls, deep cuts, gold inlays, et cetera. I don't feel obliged to find the most expensive or slowest engraver in the nation. I spent awhile earlier today at a site showcasing the work of lots of engravers, but didn't see anything that tripped my trigger. I like the look of fancy, elaborate engraving, but I'd like this gun to be a bit more subdued than that.
Ideas, anybody?
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