Re: old gun restoration?

Posted by jackinok on December 05, 2011 at 07:39:40 from (162.58.82.136):

In Reply to: old gun restoration? posted by johnwayne360 on December 04, 2011 at 13:54:36:

my opinion, VERY VERY FEW guns are worth restoring. Notice i said restoring,not repairing. Almost allways its worth more if its simply maintained in its current condition.( if that condition is workable) Proper repairs seldom hurt value. Case in point,i looked just last saturday at a SW no 3 in 44 russian. A gun originally nickled,with factory engraving. While being advertised as a original working gun, It has seen extensive modification. Its nickle plating has been removed,its polished until original engraving was mostly lost,and then it was went over and engraving deepened. Then it was blued.In a modern blue that looks nothing like the originals. grips had a chip and instead of being repaired were replaced with some modern trash. In other words,ALL collector value it had,which was considerable,is gone. Some one spend a lot of time and money into making a piece of firearm hist in to a door stop of not much more value than one of the modern replicas. Its value was in the fact it was a working original,not in its looks. The same is true of yours. IF you do this its value is only to you. To restore your grandfathers gun for sentmental reasons is priceless,simply because you cannot put a price on sentiment. To restore a common firearm, or most anything for that matter, expecting to make money is a excersise in futility. It will make money for the person doing the work however! an extremly rare firearm should not even be repaired,without knowing exactly what you are doing, and often even on these it destroys value. I knew once a fellow(my uncle in fact),who bought an old shotgun,that came with the authenticated true story of it being shot out of a locally well known lawmans hands. He took the original stock off that was broken and Put on a PROPER period stock,an original in every way. And then threw the old cracked one away. That gun lost every bit of its collector value immediatly,and became just another plain old common shotgun. The value was not in the gun per say, the value was in the broken part,and its old rawhide wrapped repair. In other words he restored it into nothing!

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