One guy does the same thing all day long, maybe brazing sights on, then hands the gun to the next guy to do the next process. And most guns are assembled today as piece work. ![]() Generally speaking, today's assemblers are far less skilled than the guys in the old days. Today, guns are assembled with far less hand fitting, and there is very little skilled fitting done. ![]() Generally speaking, the batch of guns that these assemblers worked on were sequentially numbered, so you were pretty well assured that the next gun in the sequence was fitted by the same assembler. Then all the hardened parts to each gun would be reassembled into the specific frame that they came from, and some final fitting would be performed. The guns were then disassembled and all the parts to each gun were marked so they could be mated up again with the same gun. These were highly trained and skilled assemblers, who would custom fit the parts of each gun, so they fit only that gun. ![]() In the old days, one highly skilled assembler would assemble a batch of guns. I guess a pair of 40 S&W revolvers might be special, but there is absolutely nothing about sequential numbers today that enhances the value of the gun.
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