Viggo G. Dereng's 83rd Birthday
 

For the other oldtimer members of this board like me, just a note that today is Viggo's 83rd Birthday...

I haven't heard from him since May of last year... and I suspect that he has gone to his final reward... he was in very poor health back then...

I would love to have him surprise me and reply to this thread... but whether he does or not, I wish him the very best on his birthday...

He was a WW2 vet, and a kind and gentle man... and master craftsman and machinist who made signifcant contributions to our space program while working for NASA...

For you new guys on the forum, you can see the extent of Viggo's skills by visiting the Members Gallery and looking up the exact duplicate of an Ideal Holster that he created with his own hands...

God Bless you Viggo...

I had several e-mail conversations with Viggo. A very knowledgeable and exemplary Gentleman.

Best wishes to you Viggo...

WOW, i have just finished looking up said thread, and i am utterly speechless! Words cannot describe the time and ingenuity that would have gone into that project. AMAZING, doesn't even begin to describe it!
Wish you all the best Viggo, and thank you for your service, a true master craftsman indeed!

Viggo passed away early last summer; I posted a thread on him in the hospice, but I was never sure he had died. I did a search in the fall and never found an obituary; when I called his wife after I got home (the phone number was on my main computer not my laptop), the number was disconnected.

Last PM to me on 5/20/2007

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=17124

and my tracking notes shows this:

ViggoG Last online:
02:46 PM 06-16-2007

He would have contacted me if he could.

He was a good friend of mine and I still have his PM's here on the forum because I can't convince myself to delete them...


Ed

Ed, thanks for the update... Viggo and I had many long talks... especially about his Ideal holster project... and with another late mutual friend of ours, Bob Spitzer (schwob), collaborated by lending his original Ideal Holster Stock to Viggo... to use as his model for that project.

About a year before he passed on, Viggo sent me two matching wooden Luger magazine bottoms he had made himself to put on the magazines my own father had brought home from WW2... I had casually mentioned during one our conversations that both of the original bottoms had been broken or severely chipped... He sent them as a gift to my Dad.

He was one heck of a guy... I haven't deleted his PM's to me either...

John, First I am very sorry to hear that this gentleman by the name of Viggo passed away even that I never had the pleasure to know him. It seems that I missed a lot of knowledge that I could have learned from him.
May God give him eternal rest.
I tried to find the members gallery to look at his work, but I can't even find the members gallery:o
Alf

R.I.P. Viggo Im sure your in God's blessed hands.

http://www.lugerforum.com/


Then look on the left ;)



Ed

:D
Thanks
Alf