(Scroll down for more pictures from the shop and a link
to an article about the shop.)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Gunsmith Shop located on Francis
Street near the Capitol. Windows are shuttered after hours for security.
Colonial era signs were often designed so that customers who could
not read could still identify the business within.
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Colonial Williamsburg Journal
article on the Gunsmith's Shop written in 2000 by Ed Crew.
http://colonialwilliamsburg.org/foundation/journal/Autumn00/gunsmith.cfm
December 1973
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Postcard with Jon Laubach and me, 1973. The rifle in the foreground was made
in 1967 and has a hand made barrel welded out of 1020 steel because we had no
wrought iron that year.
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1974--Fun at the forge, welding a rifle barrel--photo by Jay Gaynor.
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1978 -- The rifle in the foreground is the "movie rifle" made by Wallace Gusler
in the Gunsmith of Williamsburg film in 1968.
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About 1986-- Original rifles on the wall; 1973 wood box rifle and a fowler on
the bench so guests could handle them.
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July 1989-- George Suiter and I examine a completed restoration project.
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July 1989.
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Twenty year anniversary with Colonial Williamsburg--November 1989-- two months before a "temporary" assignment moved me from
being the Master Gunsmith to museum administration in interpretive planning.
I never returned.