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After years of collecting parts (1988-now) I put together two 1892 16″Trappers in 44-40. This was not done not to fraud anyone, but just for my son and I. I even Color cased mine to make sure it was known to be faked . We have no plans on selling these. Here’s a few details:
Very nice! 
I’ll bet that they are very fun to shoot. Add a large loop lever and even old Rooster Cogburn would be proud of them.
Bert
WACA Historian & Board of Director Member #6571L
The CCH even looks a little “aged” and is the right set of colors if you ask me….very nice!
Hollywood! Appears to be first class workmanship and creative to boot. The sling rings are a nice touch.
Because none of us are immortal but handsome Winchesters tend to be, for the benefit of our entire collecting fraternity could you please post here the full serial numbers of both these two beautiful creations? Some day they will pass outside your family’s control and, at some inevitable point, their provenance will not accompany them.
If I already weren’t gun poor, I’d make you a serious offer for either of them right now and burn rubber to get to the range. I suspect several of my WACA brethren and sistren feel the same twitching in their wallet hands, despite their best efforts to suppress desire for a “frankengun.”
Thanks for sharing.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
acre5,
I have to agree, as you’ve done a very nice job on them. I can appreciate you’re desire to spend time at the range with you’re son.
I have no problem with you’re intentions, showing no desire to falsify or fake anything. A friend of mine has done this for years, for his and his families own enjoyment, and under the barrel, and butt plate, he engraves with a metal vibrating pencil, his name, the date, and the words, “RESTORATION”. I’ve always admired him for that as his thought we’re, down the road when we’re gone, I don’t want this to fall into the wrong hands, and possibly, misrepresented.
Great work!
Thanks for Sharing,
Anthony
Bert H. said
Very nice!Bert
I have a beat up 94 wrangler, wich many have tried to cock spin (and failed). A 92 would be easier…………….
Anthony said
acre5,I have to agree, as you’ve done a very nice job on them. I can appreciate you’re desire to spend time at the range with you’re son.
I have no problem with you’re intentions, showing no desire to falsify or fake anything. A friend of mine has done this for years, for his and his families own enjoyment, and under the barrel, and butt plate, he engraves with a metal vibrating pencil, his name, the date, and the words, “RESTORATION”. I’ve always admired him for that as his thought we’re, down the road when we’re gone, I don’t want this to fall into the wrong hands, and possibly, misrepresented.
Great work!
Thanks for Sharing,
Anthony
Thanks for the compliment , The serial # for the Cased Colored :590103 1911 DOM ,the blued is 107716 1899 DOM
Zebulon said
Hollywood! Appears to be first class workmanship and creative to boot. The sling rings are a nice touch.Because none of us are immortal but handsome Winchesters tend to be, for the benefit of our entire collecting fraternity could you please post here the full serial numbers of both these two beautiful creations? Some day they will pass outside your family’s control and, at some inevitable point, their provenance will not accompany them.
If I already weren’t gun poor, I’d make you a serious offer for either of them right now and burn rubber to get to the range. I suspect several of my WACA brethren and sistren feel the same twitching in their wallet hands, despite their best efforts to suppress desire for a “frankengun.”
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the kind words, I posted the serial #s in another responce, My son is one of those gun guys that would never sell a fiearm or knife once he has possession. He even bought an extra gun safe waiting to be filled .
Thank you for posting the serials. I can easily understand how your son feels about things made by his father’s own hands and then given to him.
My Dad was a machinist and mechanic who left me his tools, some of which he bought from the journeymen and tool/die makers who taught him during the railroad shops apprenticeship he started when he was 16.
Some of his Starrett tools are useful only for measuring very large scale objects (e.g interior diameter.of a steam engine cylinder or the pin socket of a driving wheel’s arm.) But I will not dispose of them because he used them, even in his Forties and Fifties when the oil refinery he worked for needed repairs to their GM electro-diesel road/switcher locomotives.
I might GIVE them to someone but I won’t ever sell them.
The smell of cutting oil still makes me miss him though he’s been gone twenty years.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Bill,
Not to derail this post, but I can re late, as my late father,(Die Maker), gave me his machinist chest, full of the same type of tools. He got it from, his father in law,(Die Maker), my grandfather, on mom’s side, who we we’re very close with. Means a lot to me also. The small, shop made Stainless Steel bench top vise, is used constantly, on small intricate projects that I enjoy.
Anthony
My Dad’s side of the family had carpenters and I worked for a carpenter/contractor for 9 years before going on active duty. So–I have hammers from grandpa and from Dad and will pass those along with mine to my son in time. Tools that were used frequently by those we admired are precious and irreplaceable!
I have some of Grandpa’s wood working tools and would never get rid of them. He and my uncle were both wood workers. That’s probably why I have been doing this for almost 65 years.
Same thing here. My Dad was a carpenter his entire life. Many of his tools are divided between my son and myself.
steve004 said
Same thing here. My Dad was a carpenter his entire life. Many of his tools are divided between my son and myself.
My father wasnt good with tools, He was a commercial Building inspector for Fairfax Co. Va then on to division chief. One of his inspectors busted me when I was a commercial roofer in the 80’s for dumping gravel on a paved county road without silt control . I told him who my dad was, he called my dad to confirm and my dad told him to fine my company anyway and that I knew better. So all I recieved for my father reguarding tools was his integrity. I try to use it everyday.
Very nice rifles for you and son to share/appreciate/enjoy. Congrats acre5!
acre5 said
steve004 said
Same thing here. My Dad was a carpenter his entire life. Many of his tools are divided between my son and myself.
My father wasnt good with tools, He was a commercial Building inspector for Fairfax Co. Va then on to division chief. One of his inspectors busted me when I was a commercial roofer in the 80’s for dumping gravel on a paved county road without silt control . I told him who my dad was, he called my dad to confirm and my dad told him to fine my company anyway and that I knew better. So all I recieved for my father reguarding tools was his integrity. I try to use it everyday.
A valuable inheritance indeed. A boy may not listen to his father or obey as promptly as Dad would like, but he watches and learns from everything his father does.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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