We are fully operational Registered Firearms Dealers and can arrange for all work to be carried out on British shotguns.

We are specialists and do not take in work on foreign guns, semi-autos or pump action guns or rifles. We work exclusively with British-made shotguns of either side-by-side or over & under configuration.

The British gun trade has always relied on a system of ‘out workers’. That means independent craftsmen, specialising in certain work, who are commissioned by gunmakers to produce the best quality guns for which Britain is so famed. This system is flexible, keeps overheads to a minimum and allows for infinite specialisation and quality-control.

Examples of this ‘out-worker system’ include the engraving of Boss guns by the Sumners, the production of Charles Lancaster’s famous ‘Twelve Twenty’ by Birmingham out-worker William Baker and the finishing of many 1880s Holland & Holland and Boss guns by London-based outworker John Robertson.

We honour this tradition and pride ourselves on using only the very best English out-workers for all our work; be it the fitting of a new mainspring, an annual clean and service or a total re-barrelling or re-stocking job. All our out-workers are fully apprenticed gunmakers (having served seven years at one of the famous London firms) and still work for them on an out-worker basis.

In short, we can get your work done to the very highest standard, by the best craftsmen in the world, at a fraction of the cost of going into a west-end gun shop.

PROCEDURES:
E-mail us at vintageguns.co.uk and we will call you to arrange collection of your gun and to discuss what work needs to be carried out. We will collect the gun, quote you a price for the work involved and commence work. If we find that the gun maker discovers any problems or recommends further work, we will explain this to you in detail and no further work will be carried out without your express permission.