Restoration Workshop Library.

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

Salaams, Perhaps the simplest way to move forward is to make this subject a STICKY ?

Regards,

Ibrahiim al Balooshi

Hi Ibrahiim,
While the topic of restoration is indeed of considerable interest and of course, importance to many on the collecting community, it is, along with the production of reproduction weapons far from the theme of discussions here.
I am not a collector, but a historian, and actually the maintainance and general cleaning etc. of weapons often detracts from pursuing important discussion pertaining to the historical features of the weapon at hand.

I think it is preferable that sharing tips and advice on these attentions to weapons should be handled via private contact to those members who are interested, not only to keep focus on discussion topics but to avoid repurcussions from advice which may prove faulty, and inadvertantly costly if a weapon should end up compromised.

I hope you will understand that this is not to diminish the importance of careful and conservative restoration of weapons, quite the contrary, but that these matters are better addressed at an ad hoc level rather than on a specialized venue.

All very best regards,
Jim