tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post4823138276722864981..comments2023-11-11T10:14:32.543-05:00Comments on Contemporary Makers: Aging Contemporary GunsContemporary Makershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15244828145296087442noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-5643111776644366552020-10-02T18:56:08.412-04:002020-10-02T18:56:08.412-04:00The people who resell these as originals love that...The people who resell these as originals love that artificial patina too. Faked patina is still faked patina.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-42036166049163897672018-01-15T07:10:25.437-05:002018-01-15T07:10:25.437-05:00I like patina. People like Jack Hubbard and Joe M...I like patina. People like Jack Hubbard and Joe Mills are some of the best.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12482533702032328995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-23192590143965498332016-12-08T16:53:26.235-05:002016-12-08T16:53:26.235-05:00I aged my best gun the old fashioned way: I used i...I aged my best gun the old fashioned way: I used it, carried it, slept with it, lugged it, crossed rivers with it and got snowed in and rained on with it. It weathered on its own, gracefully. Got dings and chips and bunged up. And looked better for it. And, maybe just as importantly, I used no new products on it, only what mother nature provided.Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15971974992380008486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-38930212848319285572016-06-20T20:09:08.863-04:002016-06-20T20:09:08.863-04:00The fashion for quality reproduction or new furnit...The fashion for quality reproduction or new furniture makers in the post WWII period until perhaps 1975ish was to 'distress' quality furniture to make it look antique to a buyer. It meant something to buyers then, and dealers responded to buyers demand. Like the nuttinesses of 19th century interior decorators that fashion has gone and I am grateful. I note that even Japanese sword buyers used tohave an argument like this, and modern makers reproduced 'tired' blades, whose definition and robustness had been lost in centuries of polishing. I love the pure work without the artificial ageing, but just as our extreme moral display over certain issues is a fashion of our time, so perhaps is the purity of a new reproduction item. <br /><br />The ideas of steampunk and fictional, movie-based realities will also evolve and so long as items are not falsely represented to buyers, there are many extremes the future may offend us with, yet be the result of valid exercise of freedom by designers and makers.ChrisPerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16241847378278260137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-75155978032595666282015-10-29T13:32:20.748-04:002015-10-29T13:32:20.748-04:00As one who strives to build beauty into my work, t...As one who strives to build beauty into my work, to put my soul into it - it just hurts! It hurts to partially destroy lines and fine details that I work hard to create in the wood and metal. I prefer those I build for to take the guns out and use them. Collect their own "Love Bumps" on the gun through happy days in the field or on the range. Build their own history into the gun and pass that along to a son or daughter someday - Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-86768377055323452142009-08-05T02:47:39.950-04:002009-08-05T02:47:39.950-04:00I guess it falls into the same line of thought as ...I guess it falls into the same line of thought as wearing ripped and faded blue jeans to high school or the mall.<br />Its guess its a late 20th century anomaly.<br /><br />Dan PharissAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475406891215884280.post-4735476853418599572009-08-03T10:20:50.096-04:002009-08-03T10:20:50.096-04:00When I hold an antique, no matter what the vintage...When I hold an antique, no matter what the vintage, it speaks to me. Whether it’s a rifle, a cutting board or a bread bowl. It is my connection to the past. In that object I can see the life's experience of the ones who owned it before. It that object I can see my ancestors struggle to survive, raise families and build America. It gives me pause to wonder about what they saw , what did they endure. With 18th and 19th century frontier items especially, there is a vivid picture of survival to be told. These items were necessary for ones survival and the survival of ones family members. The story of America has been applied to these items with the blood, sweat and tears of those who held, used and depended on them.<br /> <br />When an “artists” or “craftsman” of today “ages” an object he has made, it adds a new dimension to that object. You might stretch a bit and say it gives that object a soul. I think it gives the object a connection to the time, place and human experience that many of us who like this “stuff” seek to recreate.<br /> <br />Scott SibleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com