getting ready to move...

gravertom

gravertom

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Hello all,
The move is going to happen.

We are heading up to western NY at the end of December. We have a place to rent picked out. After a year or two up there, we will hope to buy a house.

Thankfully, the medical insurance the company offers does cover maternity ( the little insurance we have now does not) and even thoough my wife is already pregnant, she and the babay will be covered.

here is a link to the shop where I will be working.

http://turnbullrestoration.com/

Lots to do, so I may be a bit scarce for a while.

This time of year, my wife just chains me to the bench, and sends in food and water once in a while! :D

talk to you all later, and thanks for all the prayers and good wishes.

Tom
 
Best of luck, Tom!

Cool shop. Those guns are beautiful on the main page. You must be good. Best wishes also to the wife and (soon :D ) kid.

Good luck on new start. Keep us posted when you can.

Be well and good luck,

Chris
 
CONGRTULATIONS TOM.......

Now you'll see that all those myths about Winter up there are








true.

Nice shop. You sold the house? Cool. Really neat to have an adult adventure that doesn't involve the cable man. er... nevermind.
 
Back in the '20's, 30's, and maybe into the 40's Abercrombie and Fitch was the place for gentleman adventurers to buy their equipment, including Springfield sporters and other guns to take to Africa - and I believe including double rifles.

Sixty and more years later, Turnbull Restorations is the place to have the guns mentioned above sent to, for restoration. Congratulations are very much in order,Tom.

Now I can close my eyes and imagine a Norman Rockwell scene from an old smithy out of the 50's, one that lets you see, and hear, and smell it. The lovely guns being worked on, the smell of the bluing salts, the rasping of walnut, the scent of boiled linseed oil being polished out with rottenstone, and Tom tapping away with his hammer over a Winchester 21 double.

PS: By the way, Tom, your handle reminds me of a friend who had a vanity plate on his personal vehicle that read IDIGU2. The local mortician.
 
Thanks guys! :)

We did not sell the house, but are renting it with the intention that the renters will buy it sometime next year. If not, I will be better able to handle the sale then. part of the deal is that they will help finish the addition we started, and otherwise fix it up a bit nicer.

We know the people real well.

The handle- once, an Englisj fellow called me a "graver", and it kind of struck me, as that is what we call the tools we use to engrave stuff. I was engravertom on another forum, but something happened, and i couldn't re use the handle.

besides that, I am just more serious than the avaerage Tom!

It is an honor to go work for this company, but I could provide a long list of names of engravers who are a lot better than I am.

At this point, I am getting pretty good, but not so good that I could turn down the offer, or cost them too much money for them to afford me.

Seems like a good fit.

Talk to you all later. I must change my bad self employed habits of staying up so late! :yawn:

Tom :D
 
Congrats Tom! It really does help to love what you do. That must be a very rewarding career!:D
 
And the next question on everybodies mind is: Do you get a discount on any firearms not paid for or reclaimed by their owners? :D :D

Congrats, looks like a great place to work. Wish I had the skills to do engraving.
 
I grew up with an English Father and am quite familiar with the language. You are a graver, you engrave items. It's a difficult language for most Americans...
 
Bilestoad,

Do you have two, by any chance? I am running a special today, give me one english howdah pistol, I restore the other for free! :D

I Wish I had the skills to do it all, but better just stick to the engraving for now!

Tom
 
Good luck, Tom. Remember our forum works wherever you live!

Could you make a casehardened khuk? Or Brown Bess pickled? :D

AA
 
If I was to make a case hardened khuk,it would have to be mild steel or iron with a steel bit wedged in to the edge, like the old tomahawks,or else it would come out through hardened, at least I would think so.
pretty awesome idea though. I will have to give it a try sometime!

Tom
 
Good luck with the move and new job. Sounds exciting! :D

Heber
 
Wow, congratulations Tom. Will you be doing any free-lance engraving in the near future? I have an idea for a reproduction English dog-lock pistol :rolleyes:
No kidding :)
Drop me an email if you're interested in making a little moving stake.

Western NY in January is a 'character building' experience (as we say in Chicago.)
;)
 
wow those rifles are just beautiful! i have no knowledge on such things but are there company's who make replicas of winchester 19th century rifles that actually fire?

how do these rifles compare to today's stuff.

i'd just like to mention that i know *nothing* of such things. but i do have a great love for all things classics.

:)
 
Dave,

what they do is restore old rifles to new condition, or customize new made rifles that are currently produced by the us repeating arms co, which is owned by browning now. John Browning invented many of the rifles originally produced by Winchester. A lot of the old rifles have been recreated by that company, and Doug Turnbull's company will take the bare metal gun, put the correct finishes on it, and customize them in various ways.

You have two different animals, old rifles restored/customzed, and new rifles customized to match 19th century quality standards and techniques.

Hope that helps some!

Tom
 
gravertom said:
Bilestoad,

Do you have two, by any chance? I am running a special today, give me one english howdah pistol, I restore the other for free! :D

I Wish I had the skills to do it all, but better just stick to the engraving for now!

Tom
Click to expand...

Alas, no I only have the one. :( It's a Wesley Richards... Pretty good shape, but it needs work, and the right kind of attention...
 
Very impressive. I've been in the city so long, I can't remember the last time I've fired a pistol or rifle. There's an indoor shooting range just up the road, but I can't bring myself to go up there and pay to shoot. Nothing against it, just not the same after growing up in the backwoods and being able to go out in the fields and shoot cans, gallon jugs and bottle tops.

Good luck and congratulations!
 
Bilestoad,

It might be worth sending it up there for them to look at.

It will not be, as the little bird says, "cheap"

:D

I sure would love to see it though!

Tom
 
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