{"id":2123,"date":"2019-01-17T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2019-01-17T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:07:40","slug":"the-turnbull-scars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/01\/17\/the-turnbull-scars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turnbull scars…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doug Turnbull’s personal 1886 Winchester.\u00a0 Note the color case hardening on the receiver and the ultra-high grade walnut.\u00a0 These are magnificent guns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m bombarded with emails and phone calls every day.\u00a0 I haven’t answered a call on my home phone literally in years because of the marketing calls (anyone important calls me on my cell phone), and now I’m starting to get marketing calls on my cell phone, too.\u00a0 Sorry, folks…if I don’t recognize the number, you’re going to voicemail, and just so you know in advance, I don’t need any work done on my home and I’m not in the market for solar panels.\u00a0 And email, wow…delete, delete, delete, delete, and on and on it goes.\u00a0 Once in a great while my inbox will have a marketing email I’ll take a look at, though, and this morning was one of those times.<\/p>\n

The email that caught my eye this morning was from Turnbull Restorations.\u00a0 A quick word about Turnbull…they are a company back east that restores firearms and they’re known for their color case hardening.\u00a0 That’s a process that adds magnificent colors to selected bits of a firearm to enrichen their appearance dramatically.\u00a0 It’s what you see on uber-expensive shotguns, Colt Single Action Army revolvers, and a few select lever guns.\u00a0 Turnbull has mastered the process, and Mr. Turnbull makes and restores some of the world’s finest firearms.<\/p>\n

I’m surprised color case hardening hasn’t shown up on custom bikes.\u00a0 A few years ago, engraving on selected bike bits had a brief half life on custom Harleys and the like.\u00a0 I thought that was kind of stupid, actually, and it never got an “oooh” or an “ah” from me. \u00a0 But I could see it working with color case hardening.\u00a0 Say an all black bike with color case hardened clutch covers, handlebars, and a few other pieces.\u00a0 Just for accent.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the email that caught my eye was about Doug Turnbull’s personal rifle, a restored and rechambered 1886 Winchester, and the scars it bore from the various hunts he’s taken.\u00a0 It referred me to the Turnbull blog, and I just spent the last few minutes reading that story.\u00a0 It’s a good one, and it’s one that hit home. \u00a0 I’ve got a few nicks and dings on my favorite rifle from its outings. \u00a0 You might enjoy the Turnbull story, too.\u00a0 You can read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That got me to thinking about some of the scars on my motorcycle.\u00a0 I like a bike that has a few battle scars on it.\u00a0 Not the ones induced by careless motorcycle technicians during routine maintenance (don’t get me started on those), but the ones that come from real trips to real exotic places.\u00a0 Or the ones that occur naturally through aging.\u00a0 I’ve got more than a few of those on my personal RX3, and each one of them tells a story. \u00a0 That might be a topic for another blog. \u00a0 We’ll see.\u00a0 In the meantime, I’m going to poke around a bit on the Turnbull blog.\u00a0 I love looking at those color case hardened Turnbull guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m bombarded with emails and phone calls every day.\u00a0 I haven’t answered a call on my home phone literally in years because of the marketing calls (anyone important calls me on my cell phone), and now I’m starting to get marketing calls on my cell phone, too.\u00a0 Sorry, folks…if I don’t recognize the number, you’re … Continue reading “The Turnbull scars…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235,84],"tags":[239,500],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-guns","tag-doug-turnbull","tag-turnbull-firearms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2126,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}