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03-21-2005, 09:02 PM | #1 |
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Luger quiz #2 for new collectors
Ok, look closely at this fine rig and tell me your thoughts? There are MANY things that should just jump out at you.
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03-21-2005, 10:22 PM | #2 |
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"Professionally restored" by an amateur! Buffed to within a minute of its last breath! Forced matched with ridiculously large and non-level numbers and fonts! The ghosts of DWM would cringe and forever haunt the unwary buyer of this monstrosity!!
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03-21-2005, 10:29 PM | #3 |
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I think that he should clean his darn garage!!!
He has the oddest stair step numbering I have ever seen, that is for sure... ed |
03-21-2005, 10:31 PM | #4 |
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About the only thing that appears to be right is the washers under the stock holster strap atytaching screws. What a P.O.S.
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03-21-2005, 10:37 PM | #5 |
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Really the only things that I saw that were right was the magazine and it is a Luger!
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03-22-2005, 02:21 AM | #6 |
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Ok at the risk of showing how ignorant I really am. Please list all the bad and let me check my score card.
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03-22-2005, 09:25 AM | #7 |
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There's allot wrong, I'll try not to leave anything out.
1)Very un-professionally done reblue. Cannot call that a restoration without insulting Ted. 2) It looks as though the gun was forced matched to the toggle. 3) Rear sight is blued and should be in the white. 4) Stock iron is numbered in the wrong number size and wrong location. 5) Grips are rough checkered. Either Russian or other poor quality repro's. 6)Holster and stock are good quality repro's. I probably missed something? |
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The stock is of the "Persian" variety, one can just barely make out the Farsi markings stamped into the wood near the locking lever. The magazine seems to be okay though. |
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03-22-2005, 11:25 AM | #9 |
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Pictures #4, 13 and 15 are the most striking to my eye. The font is wrong, the size of the numbers is wrong and the alignment is off. Photography leaves a lot to the imagination as well. If one were to hold this item in hand and truly examine it, there would surely be other glaring faults.
My $.02 Tim
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03-22-2005, 01:58 PM | #10 |
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If it has been "professionally restored", I wonder what the restorer's "profession" is?
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Ron,
As it looks like everybody who worked on it was pretty drunk I'd say "Bar Owner" |
03-22-2005, 02:44 PM | #12 |
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OMG--what a piece of junk. Shame on who ever did this "restoration," they should be beaten!
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03-22-2005, 08:21 PM | #13 |
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* I suppose the broken takedown latch retainer spring is a minor item in this example's deluge of shame. See pic #14.
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03-23-2005, 01:29 AM | #14 |
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Well,its back to the books for me. I only caught about half of the mistakes!
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One of the warning signs for new collectors should be the photographers ability to only focus on the views he wants you to see and all of the other shots are out of focus. Selectively poor lighting is another warning. WHen you are a vendor shooting pictures of a $2000+ item you get the focus and the lighting right. The photographs on Phoenix Arms are classics in the art of not showing undesirable details.
I beieve this was restored by the professional decorator who did the garage. |
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