This is a trigger guard and a buttplate for a 17 HMR rifle. The design is almost Arabesque.
I’ll post more photos as it nears completion.
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Gouse Freelance Firearms Engraving
Superior Quality Workmanship from Renowned Master Gun Engraver, Michael Gouse
This is an easy way to customize your hunting rifle! This post features an engraved trigger guard, floorplate, and grip cap – this easily adds personalization and elegance to your rifle without breaking the bank.
It also allows for you to have the action, bolt, breech, and rings engraved at a later date.
The engraving can be in many different patterns and styles. In this example, American Scroll was used. It can also be done in Renaissance, English, or Relief-Carved Oak Leaves, among others.
This is a beautiful yet simple rifle engraved in a semi-English style. It evokes English rifles used in Africa in the 1900s.
Rifles of this particular caliber would have been used for plains game hunting, lions, and leopards.
The checkering is by Mary Ann Hockenbury, a local of the Bitterroot Valley.
I engraved this 1881 Marlin rifle to recreate a factory pattern that was common to the rifle. The original was done by Conrad F Ulrich, he was the Marlin factory engraver from 1881 to 1907. C. F. Ulrich was part of the Ulrich Firearms engraving dynasty which stretched for nearly a century from the 1850s until 1949.
The animals on this particular pattern all appear to have been done in a “folk-art” style and includes deer, bear, & bison.
Over the years we have recreated many historic patterns on a wide variety of firearms.
This floorplate and grip cap are engraved in American Scroll but, for added emphasis, they each feature selective nickel plating! I can also selectively plate in silver or 24k gold.
The selective plating allows you to have the look of inlays at a fraction of the cost!