Marlin 336, 30/30 Wire Inlay

Lets start with this is my own piece. We take this to gun shows with us as a display piece, so you may have seen us around. I am proud of this one though, so I wanted to share a bit. This was brought to me by a young man. His grandfather had passed. When cleaning out his house they found four long guns in the attic that were just complete rust balls. He brought them to me and asked if I would be interested in them. After restoring them, I decided to hold onto this one as a project piece. It had a brass trigger that called to me for some reason. I remade the white detail spacers in brass, swapped the barrel rings out for brass ones, did a brass wire inlay in the stock and the pistol grip, and finally, I added an old small tube brass scope to finish it off, (took me years to find and acquire the scope). It is one of my favorite pieces. It is the embodiment of taking a piece that calls to you, and truly making it yours.