Marlin Carved Up..!

deerwhacker444 · Post by **deerwhacker444** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:07 pm

Not sure what to think about this.....

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displ ... um=8431745

joachim slim · Post by **joachim slim** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:11 pm

i dont care for it.

jengel · Post by **jengel** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:12 pm

Looks like an Inca commemorative model to me

.

cnjarvis · Post by **cnjarvis** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:12 pm

Someone spent an awful lot of time trashing that stock.

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:24 pm

Your not far off Jengel. Whew! I need to go clear my eyes.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:27 pm

I can see why the owner wants shut of it!!

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:29 pm

I like it. It's symbols from an Alaskan tribe. They decorated their canoe paddles, houses, and furniture the same way. I can see how it would fit perfectly in some households.

'Course, in the good old days [like, before guns] wearing those 'colors' would get you killed by anyone from any other tribe just as quick as inner city gangs kill today.

Grizz

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:31 pm

Looks better than 95% of the carving I have seen on several "customized" models.

Stocks are cheap to replace. But not for the money he'e asking.

claybob86 · Post by **claybob86** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:32 pm

It would look better without the gold trigger and with CCH on the receiver and some aging on the rest of the metal...

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:38 pm

I think it's awesome.

That's an original piece of art, and I'd love to know the story it tells.
Personally, I don't feel that any gun, or any other tool, should be "queened". They should be used, and personalized if desired. The "Mine's more factory perfect than yours" approach doesn't appeal to me at all.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:51 pm

I think its okay, but I wouldn't pay near his price for it.

Gives it character though.

MikeS. · Post by **MikeS.** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:52 pm

Not my cup of tea.

Haycock · Post by **Haycock** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:08 pm

Gold trigger + no roll-stamped barrel warning = 1st production year 1894C...

Not only is that hideous, it's the ruin of a carbine destined to be a real collectible......

jazman · Post by **jazman** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:19 pm

To each their own, not my style but hopefully someone who likes that kind of thing will find it and be happy to own it.

41_Marlin · Post by **41_Marlin** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:49 pm

Glad to see they left the Bull's Eye in place.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:00 pm

Not my style, but... I have to admire the workmanship in it.

cubrock · Post by **cubrock** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:19 pm

deerwhacker444 wrote:Not sure what to think about this.....

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/displ ... um=8431745

I think it is neat, actually. I wouldn't pay that price for it, but I admire the craftsmanship that went into it and would like to know what it means to the man who carved it.

Post by **Old Savage** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:17 pm

Not for Me

kentdep · Post by **kentdep** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:55 pm

Looks like a waste of good wood to me. I would only buy it if it came with factory wood.

Jay

LeverBob · Post by **LeverBob** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:03 pm

People have always decorated their guns...not for me though.

LeverBob

2ndovc · Post by **2ndovc** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:20 pm

"Inca Commerative Model"

I like that! My minor in college was Anthropology.

How about "Indiana Jones Special "

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:04 pm

Grizz wrote:I like it. It's symbols from an Alaskan tribe.
Grizz

Are you sure Grizz? That looks like South American stuff to me...aka Mayan, Aztec or some such other? I need to go back again but I thought that is what it was.

cutter · Post by **cutter** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:13 pm

Cocaine is a powerfull drug...

1886 · Post by **1886** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:16 pm

Butt ugly! 1886.

winter1857 · Post by **winter1857** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:10 pm

I think it's great. I'd love to have it. People have always decorated their weapons and tools. Why do you think old flintlocks had tons of brass and silver and other geegaws on them?

Poor guys would paint their guns for decoration. Eric Kettenberg used to have a great flintlock on his website that had really beautiful German/American folk art figures painted on it. It was a copy of an actual colonial era small bore flinter.

I'm sure this fellow had a lot of lonely Alaskan nights to work on this thing. It's awesome to me.

Andrew · Post by **Andrew** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:40 pm

Well the story behind the art would be neat to hear, if there is one.

The carving is hard to do and that took some time/patience to accomplish.

I would much rather have that than the milsurps I see at the candy store that have been literally whittled down by some moron.

cubrock · Post by **cubrock** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:54 pm

C. Cash wrote:
Grizz wrote:I like it. It's symbols from an Alaskan tribe.
Grizz
Are you sure Grizz? That looks like South American stuff to me...aka Mayan, Aztec or some such other? I need to go back again but I thought that is what it was.

The Tlingits are an Alaskan tribe. Many of the Pacific NW and Alaskan tribes share similar-looking motifs with the South American tribes, but these are distinctively Pacific.

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:07 pm

It's not for me but I can appreciate the work that went into it. I'd like to hear the story behind it. I can see where it could be worth a considerable amount of money one day and this one should be looked at from an investment perspective not for the firearm itself but for the Native American artwork which is obviously Alaskan/Northwestern in nature. Really amazing work. I Googled the Tlinget tribe and came up with some interesting information. The more I think about it the more tempting it becomes.

24thMICH · Post by **24thMICH** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:29 pm

Actually, I'm kind of relieved....

After reading "Marlin carved up" I thought that Remington went ahead and
broke the Marlin company up into a few smaller companies, y'know, like one company specializing in leveractions, another specializing in .22's, and yet another company specializing in bolt actions...

Glad it was just a guy who went crazy on a single rifle...

.

cubrock · Post by **cubrock** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:41 pm

24thMICH wrote:Actually, I'm kind of relieved....

After reading "Marlin carved up" I thought that Remington went ahead and
broke the Marlin company up into a few smaller companies, y'know, like one company specializing in leveractions, another specializing in .22's, and yet another company specializing in bolt actions...

Glad it was just a guy who went crazy on a single rifle...

.

I thought the exact same thing when I first read the subject line. My heart sank at first...

jkbrea · Post by **jkbrea** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:58 pm

It just seems to me if someone personalized a rifle like that, they would keep it or hand it down to a relative. A lot of time went into that, but like Old Savage said, Not for me.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:10 pm

Truly unique. If that was one's heritage, it would be the perfect lever!

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:34 pm

C. Cash wrote:
Grizz wrote:I like it. It's symbols from an Alaskan tribe.
Grizz
Are you sure Grizz? That looks like South American stuff to me...aka Mayan, Aztec or some such other? I need to go back again but I thought that is what it was.

Yes, the ad says "Carved by Jim Hale -Tlinget Tribe". I lived around that culture for a long time.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:22 pm

Yuck!

41_Marlin · Post by **41_Marlin** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:26 pm

I guess now we know why Marlin puts all the extra wood in their stocks.

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:41 am

I guess now we know why Marlin puts all the extra wood in their stocks.

Exactly!

And let's not forget... it's just a rifle.

C. Cash · Post by **C. Cash** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:43 am

Thanks Grizz and Cubrock. Interesting the two cultures have art that looks so similar.

Dastook · Post by **Dastook** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:45 am

To each his own, but I don't like it.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:34 pm

Kinda like decorating your car with pink and yellow poka-dots making people take notice, guess for some it ain't bad.....but not in the circles I'm accustom to. Demure and and good taste fit into my aspirations, not loud and obnoxious. Then again...to each there own. Heck of a way to cover up a ding though.

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:23 pm

Ewwww.... a neat job, to be sure, but not to my tastes.

Slick · Post by **Slick** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:57 pm

I guess that's what they call "pimping the Marlin"...

Not for me either.

Rexster · Post by **Rexster** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:09 am

I like it. My wife is into Native American art from that region, and I am betting she would really like it.

Swampman · Post by **Swampman** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:15 am

With a new stock set it would be nice. The old one could be split for kindling.

Marlin Carved Up..!

Marlin Carved Up..!

rifle

Re: Marlin Carved Up..!