Happy Birthday viggoG.
 

Happy Birthday to viggoG. I don't post very often, but as kind of an old time member I would like to remember viggoG as he did some kind of neat things with luger collecting and he has passed on. Maybe this isn't luger related, but sometimes a man shouldn't be forgotten. Happy birthday to viggoG and happy luger collecting to everyone else.
Randy

he should be remembered

Randy and Howard, thats nice. I was a friend of his as you guys were and he was a Nasa engineer when they did all the 1960's and 1970's space stuff; a cool time for a very smart man.

Ed

Happy Birthday Viggo. I never got to meet him, but we talked via email several times. A very nice, and sharp guy.

Rest In Piece Viggo

I miss talking to himon the phone.......we shared some of the same asthma problems.....

Viggo was also a WW2 combat veteran.

I am the proud owner of two absolutely perfect wooden magazine bottoms created by the master engineer to rehab the broken bottoms on the magazines that my late Dad brought home from WW2 with his Luger (that is now mine.)

They were a gift from Viggo to my father. I will treasure them always. He was a great friend. We had many long discussions on gunsmithing and engineering. He was fascinating to talk to. I had the privilege of introducing Viggo to Bob Spitzer (Schwob), another favorite Lugerforum member who has passed on. Bob generously loaned his complete Ideal Luger holster/stock to Viggo so that the master engineer could reproduce one of these rare items for his own model 1900 Luger that he had refinished from a Junker into a fine shooter. There is a permanent album of his reproduction Ideal stock in the Member Gallery for those new members who didn't know him... I swear, he could make ANYTHING he put his mind to...

Happy Birthday Viggo G. Dereng ... you are missed and not forgotten.

ViggoG
 

I too was amazed by this mans knowledge... His generation made their own mark on history...He is truly missed... Our forum is poorer for his passing... best to all, til...lat'r...GT
BTW, he would be pleased that he was remembered... he was a great gentleman...

Viggo and I were working on a grip making project when he became to ill to continue. He had sliced several hundred blanks out of an old walnut desk. He was building a duplicating machine to turn them into Luger grips, then I was going to checker them. I don't know what happened to the wood, he had some nice OLD walnut.

Happy birthday Viggo!