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Posted: 12/27/2012 12:29:04 PM EDT
| Hey gang, I may be out of place with this post here but I couldn't decide if I should post in Gunsmithing/Shotguns ~ so I came here. I've got a Remington model 11 that is in it's 4th generation of service to my family and I'd like to have it restored to "Factory" so that it could be placed on the wall until the next generation. Any ideas or suggestions? I checked Remington and they didn't have anything like that. I had hoped it would have a shop like like S&W where you send them your gun and money and they go to work. I'm sort of looking for that Larry Potterfield type of restore. |
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Here are some pictures of the gun, the up close shots are pretty poor. I'll try to get some better ones here shortly. That's a good question, I might not see the forest for the trees.
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Here are some pictures of the gun, the up close shots are pretty poor. I'll try to get some better ones here shortly. That's a good question, I might not see the forest for the trees. Pictures That gun doesnt need restored. That shows good honest use from 4 generations. Not bubba'd, just used. Keep passing it down, it looks good. 
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Here are some pictures of the gun, the up close shots are pretty poor. I'll try to get some better ones here shortly. That's a good question, I might not see the forest for the trees. Pictures That gun doesnt need restored. That shows good honest use from 4 generations. Not bubba'd, just used. Keep passing it down, it looks good. +1 |
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From a collectors standpoint most any kind of "restoration" of a original used firearm will just ruin the actual value.
General wear and tear from honest use should be left alone. Re-blueing of metal and refinishing of wood can make the gun look newer or shiny but new and shiny is not approate on a old firearm. A old firearem that has been abused or messed about with can have some work done to it to fix up past carnage and this might be disiriable with a family piece with sentimental value but the real collectors value is poor on such a piece. |
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From a collectors standpoint most any kind of "restoration" of a original used firearm will just ruin the actual value. General wear and tear from honest use should be left alone. Re-blueing of metal and refinishing of wood can make the gun look newer or shiny but new and shiny is not approate on a old firearm. A old firearem that has been abused or messed about with can have some work done to it to fix up past carnage and this might be disiriable with a family piece with sentimental value but the real collectors value is poor on such a piece. Not necessarily true. A true restoration, by the likes of someone like Turnbull, on a gun of mediocre collectability, like eh Model 11, will nearly always show an increase in value. The problem lies, will the increase subsidize the cost of the restoration? Rarely. |
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From a collectors standpoint most any kind of "restoration" of a original used firearm will just ruin the actual value. General wear and tear from honest use should be left alone. Re-blueing of metal and refinishing of wood can make the gun look newer or shiny but new and shiny is not approate on a old firearm. A old firearem that has been abused or messed about with can have some work done to it to fix up past carnage and this might be disiriable with a family piece with sentimental value but the real collectors value is poor on such a piece. Not necessarily true. A true restoration, by the likes of someone like Turnbull, on a gun of mediocre collectability, like eh Model 11, will nearly always show an increase in value. The problem lies, will the increase subsidize the cost of the restoration? Rarely. I think that's only a recent development. Prior to the existence of the high end restorations, refinishing a gun almost always lowered it's value. The 2 exceptions were guns that were 20% or less and only had value as a shooter anyway and individual makers. For instance, my understanding is that Parker shotguns never really lost their value in a restoration, and things like reparkerizing Garands where "mil-spec" provides a standard and where there are so few original ones left. |
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