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Custom Carved Thanksgiving

At this time of year, I would like to share my custom carved Thanksgiving with you.  I find myself giving thanks for everything in my life. This year is no exception. Thanksgiving for me is a special time to get together with family and friends. Share memories and catch up on what’s going on in each others lives. Then there is also the FOOD!!!! We can’t forget the food or the game on TV! Still, it is a good time to stop and reflect on what has happened on my life over the past year. I have included the link to the original blog post. Just click on the picture and it will take you to the blog post.

I want to tell everyone who viewed or commented on my web site, THANK YOU! My custom carved gun stocks have been a very rewarding part of my life. I’m sure without your support and comments, I would not ventured out to share my carvings with world. Each of you have enriched my life in so many ways. I find myself getting up in the mornings just to run in the office to see who has sent me a comment or an email. I enjoy sharing my custom carved gun stocks with you. From the actual design to the basket weave on to the hand painted art work. I have a hard time wanting to come in the house at night after carving all day in my studio on a new project. I also send my thanks to my family and friends for your encouragement and support. I’m sure I have bugged you with my designs and projects. For these reasons and many, many more I thank you! I hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Please stay safe while driving. We still have Christmas and New Years to celebrate remember!

I thought I would start something new this year. I am going show all the guns I have completed each year. So bare with me while I list them all for you to view again. Each client I have carved a gun stock for this year can now show them off again. Its your turn to brag on your gun stock carving! Here you can show off your custom carved, hand painted art work I have carved for you.

Each gun has been custom carved or (custom engraving) and hand painted to bring out the detail. There is no two guns alike! All of the guns have gone up in value after being carved. Gun collectors and appraisers will tell you the gun has doubles and even triples in price. Some have grown even more in value. Still, all of the clients I have carved for this year tell me their gun will never leave their hands. They will be handed down through the generations. What a legacy they will leave for their children.

If you are thinking of having a gun custom carved for a friend, client or family member. Contact me soon. I also have gift certificates available. Gift certificates make the best gifts. The person receiving the gift certificate for the custom carving can chose what they would like on their gun stock.

Again, enjoy your Thanksgiving and remember to drive safely. We all want you around for the rest of this Holiday season and the next! Happy Carving Deb L

Custom Carved Savage 308

Just finished, a custom carved Savage 308 rifle. This is a Christmas present for a friends wife. I have carved the Hawaiian flower (Hibiscus) with an Alaskan moose. I have also included the basket weave on the forend and grip of this gun stock. I have added accents to the grip (moose horn) and forend (Hibiscus flower). All of the custom carved art work is hand painted to enhance the detail. If this gun was appraised today it would appraise for $3700.00. Gun collectors would give their eye to have this gun in their collection. I’m sure this gun will be handed down from mother to daughter.

This gun has been discontinued years ago. I have included the history of the Savage arms rifle Model 99F. I hope you enjoy reading about this gun.  

History

The Savage 99 was preceeded by the Savage 1895, which was the first hammerless lever-action rifle produced. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom Carved Savage Model 99

Custom carved Savage Arms Model 99 is my next project. As I’m sure every gun collector knows, this gun was discontinued years ago. It is a very nice gun to shoot. Very accurate and dependable. I have been asked to carve a moose with the Hibiscus flower on this gun. This is a Christmas present for one of my clients wife. She has no idea she is receiving this gun. Many men would never think of giving a gun to his wife. Unless you are like this family. All are avid hunters and enjoy getting out and being in the outdoors. This gun will have a beautiful moose scene carved on the gun stock. It will be outlined with the Hibiscus flower. The forend and grip will have the basket weave along with something else to enhance the design. You will have to check back to see what gun stock art has been put on the grip and forend. The custom carving is all hand finished along with the hand painting that accentuates the detail of the carving. Gun collectors world wide will be envious of this gun. I’m sure it will be handed down from generation to generation. Your comments are greatly appreciated. Please feel free to leave them below. Happy Halloween! Deb

The Savage Arms Company is a firearms manufacturing company based in Westfield, Massachusetts, with a division located in Canada. The company makes a variety of rimfire and centerfire rifles, as well as marketing the Stevens single-shot rifles and shotguns. They may be best-known for the Model 99 hammerless lever-action rifle, no longer in production, and the very popular .300 Savage sporting cartridge, which was the parent case for the .308 Winchester cartridge.

The Model 99, and its predecessor models 1895 and 1899, are a series of lever action rifles created by the Savage Arms Company in Utica, New York. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom Carved Weatherby Mark V

Custom carved weatherby mark V gun will be an interesting project. I have been asked to carve an Iris flower on this gun along with the official name of the flower, the “Martha Lisa” iris. This customer has asked me to create this beautiful memory for him to display and be handed down from generation to generation.  I will be inlaying then name in ivory. This gun already has a beautiful design on the grip and forend. You will have to check back later to see what else I have added to this gun. I believe you will be pleasantly surprised. I will also be hand painting the art work as well.  Gun collectors around the nation will love this gun.

Your comments are grately appreciated. Please feel free to leave them below. Thanks for stopping by my web site. I look forward to creating something very unique for you. Deb

Gun History

Here is some history of the Weatherby Mark V gun. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom Carved – Have We Lost Our Heritage?

Have we lost our heritage? How many people have given this any thought? I for one have. While custom carving this coach gun shot gun, I began wondering this very thing. With out Wells Fargo Bank to carry on the tradition of using the stagecoachs for their advertising. We would have lost this beautiful image years ago. The old west is fast becoming lost to our modern ways of life.

The picture above is a very rough carving of the pattern to be put on the coach gun.

This is yet another reason I decided to carve the abandoned stage coach on the ICA coach gun. Not only will this custom carved coach gun preserve the memories and the history of the old west. It also adds trememdous value to any gun collector’s personal collection. This gun will be hand carved and hand painted. There will not be enough room for the basket weave pattern to be put on this gun. Is this something that you are looking for on your gun? If so please drop me a line or call me to discuss your options and what you would like on your gun.

Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to leave them below.

Custom Carved Stage Coach Gun

I’ve started another gun stock. This gun is a custom carved stage coach gun shotgun. The last coach gun I carved was such a great success, I decided to carve another one. This gun will be carved/engraved with an abandoned stage coach. It is to symbolize how we are loosing our western heritage. I would like to be able to save our history in some way. This is my attempt at saving and sharing some of this history.

Here is a little information about this gun.

The gun stock will be custom carved and hand painted. This gun will not have a basket weave.  The forend of this gun is to narrow to support the pattern. This gun will make a great addition to the Wells Fargo Stagecoach collection. I look forward to showing you the finished project. Your comments are greatly appreciated. Feel free to respond to this post below.

Custom Carved Gun Show Results

The gun show has proved to be a wonderful experience. I enjoyed meeting and getting to know all who came up to my booth to see the guns I had brought. Thank you very much for coming and meeting me in person. I, not only gained many new friends, but I have also gained many new ideas for carving. I will be very busy for months to come. I would love to hear from everyone who attended the show. What was your thoughts on the show?

There where many gun collectors at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show. Not to mention all of the gun enthusiasts. Many people where purchasing guns for the upcoming hunts. There was a man who had just returned from Alaska. He had been hunting fox. He was able to fill his tag with a fox that was over 6 feet long and weighted 120lbs +. Just wish he would have had his pictures with him. I would have loved to have seen them.

Many of the people where very interested in how I could repair scratches in their guns. They also where wanting to know if I could carve their companies logo on a gun for safety awards or for a special client. There where many people who enjoyed re-telling their hunting story. I suggested putting their story on the gun stock, thus giving them bragging rights as well as the ability of handing their story down to their children.  

The show was really fun and informative. I am looking forward to the next one. The next gun show I am planning on attending will be the Shot Arms Show in Los Vegas, Nevada in January. This show is sponsored by the NRA. I will be adding more information as I receive it.

Pictures of all my new projects will be coming soon. Thanks again to all who was able to come to the gun show last weekend. I look forward to working with you on your gun. Thanks again! Deb

Custom Carved Gun Stocks

Do you enjoy beautiful works of art? Western art I mean. Would you like to re-tell a hunting story or preserve one forever? Now you can. I can recreate your memory for you and put it on your favorite gun stock. Here are a few examples:

Your custom carved gun will not only tells your story. You will have the most unique bragging rights around. Your custom carved gun stock adds value to any gun collection. From basket weave to western scenes. The sky is the limit on what can be carved on your gun stock. Maybe you have a gun that has a deep scratch or nick. I can help you repair the scratch with a custom carving. I also hand paint each carving I do.

Contact me to see what I can do for you. Let me help you pass your memories down from generation to generation. Your children will be glad you did.

Your comments are greatly appreciated. Please post them below. Happy Carving!!! Deb

Custom Carved Gun Show

Here are a few of the guns that will be at the custom carved gun show!!!! At least that is what I am calling it. LOL I am scheduled to attend the Crossroads of the West Gun Show this coming weekend. I hope to see a lot of you at the show. I will have many of the guns shown here on my web site at the show. Many of these guns are for sale. I will also be taking orders for Christmas, birthdays, special occasions, graduations, or to create something very unique for you or your company. All of my guns have been custom designed, carved, and hand painted by me. They will make a very unique addition as well as a very valuable addition to any gun collectors collection.

The show will be held at the South Town Expo center in Salt Lake City, UT. Dates are, September 25 & 26, 2010. If there is a particular gun you have had your eye on. Please email me fast and make arrangements to purchase the gun before the show. I do look forward to custom carving a gun stock for you and visiting with you at the gun show. Happy Carving!!!! Deb Lindsay

Custom Carved Browning 270

My next project in a very long line of enjoyable artwork is a custom carved Browing 270rifle. I have decided to carve a bighorn sheep on this gun. There will not be any background around the bighorn sheep. I have not decided (as yet) whether to carve basket weave or something on the forend of this gun or not. You will have to check back later to see what my decision ended up being. Here is interesting information about the Browning Rifle Company. This gun will be for sale at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show in Salt Lake City, UT. The gun show will be held September 25 & 26, 2010 at the South Town Expo Center.

John Moses Browning

(January 21 or January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), born in Ogden, Utah, was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms, many of which are still in use around the world. He is arguably the most important figure in the development of modern automatic and semi-automatic firearms and is credited with 128 gun patents. His first was granted October 7, 1879. He had made his first firearm at age 13 in his father’s gun shop.

Browning influenced nearly all categories of firearms design. He invented or made significant improvements to single-shot rifles, lever-action rifles, and slide-actionfirearms. His most significant contributions were in the area of autoloading firearms. He developed the first reliable and compact autoloading pistols by inventing the telescoping bolt, integrating the bolt and barrel shroud into what is known as the slide. Browning’s telescoping bolt design is now found on nearly every modern semi-automatic pistol, as well as several modern fully automatic weapons.

He also developed the first gas-operated machine gun, the Colt-Browning Model 1895—a system that surpassed mechanical recoil operationto become the standard for most high-power self-loading firearm designs worldwide.

Browning’s most successful designs include the M1911 pistol, the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and a ground-breaking semi-automatic shotgun, the Browning Auto-5. These arms are nearly identical today to those assembled by Browning in the 1920s, with only minor changes in detail and cosmetics. Nearly all parts may be freely swapped between the earliest and latest of each series of these weapons, no matter when made, which has extended their service life span nearly indefinitely. Read the rest of this entry »