Photos from Dixon's

[colmoultrie]

I've been busy since Dixon's, but here are a few of the pictures I took when here Saturday and Sunday.

Reaves Goehring, who has been making excellent castings for decades:

Ken Gahagan, best known for some beautiful Hudson's Bay Fowling pieces, but also a master of the Berks County rifle, as he showed me:

Leonard Day has a new 1650 French flintlock whose lines made my heart race, although at $1900, it's unlikely to be in my future:

Allen Martin had a collection of beautiful rifles, as well as a gorgeous Kassel fowler that I fell in love with:

I met Roy Stroh for the first time, and really enjoyed hanging out with him and chatting for a while. He's a good man and builds some beautiful guns:

And, oh yes, there were some very nice entries in the judging:

There was much more, but this topic is perhaps too photo-heavy already, so I'll leave the rest for now. I know some who came only on Friday complained about the fair, but I think that there was excellent material on display - certainly enough to get my saliva flowing, even if I couldn't shell out the cash to take something home with me.

As a postscript, thanks to people like Bob Gular, who works each year at the fair to make it a success; thanks to the Fulmers and the Rubbos for manning the NMLRA booth and demonstrating enthusiasm and good humor when the weather is trying, and thanks to Greg Dixon and his family for putting this event together year after year.

 

[Keb]

Thanks for posting these pictures. It looks like an awesome event. I must try to get there some time.

 

[Flintlock]

Wish I wouldn't have looked, now I want more. Many more.

 

[Cowboy]

Looks like a great time!

I love your pics. It definitely makes me want to go there and check it out.

Respectfully, Cowboy :thumbsup:

 

[smo]

Thank you for posting the pics. Dixons is on my bucket list for sure. :thumbsup:

 

[dave_person]

Hi,
Thanks for posting those photos. I want to bring to folks attention that demos in ALR tent (On the hill behind the food vendors) expanded this year and likely will continue to expand. These are close up and sometimes, hands on, demonstrations of various tasks in gun building. For example, this year we had demos for stock carving, wire inlay, one-piece muzzlecap forming, fixing gunmaking mistakes, finishing stocks, engraving, sharpening engravers, making screws in an 18th century manner, shaping wrist and lock panels, and casting silver and brass decorative wrist escutcheons using Delft clay. It is a great opportunity to watch, learn and do, and ask questions of some very fine gun makers. Two of those gun makers won best of class in the journeyman and master categories at Dixon's this year.

 

[colmoultrie]

I have sat in on some of the seminars in the past, and most years I hope to do so. The problem is, I always get to talking with old friends or new acquaintances, and I get to fewer seminars than I'd like. Do I regret it? Not really.