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Hi 

Looking through Facebook ads I seen someone that can do laser engraving... so I contacted him and asked if he could do a side plate on my 525 laminate as its plane ... which he said yes now problem but only the flat bits ...... so now the question is what do I have on it ..... do I have a family personal picture or do I get a game scene ... what do you guys think 

I have the guys email if you want to contact him aswell seems very knowledgeable and will only need the parts that need engraving so wont need licence 

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41 minutes ago, WalkedUp said:

My vote would be to leave it plain, spend the money on some cartridges. But I hate tattoos and ornamentation so I am biased. 

I'm of the nothing at all OR fully "spammed up" mindset. I dislike part engraved guns be it 1/4 covered, 1/2 covered or 3/4 covered. I'm all or nothing. For the halfway house of a bit here and a bit there always in my eye looks as if you couldn't afford to have the job fully covered.

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If you ever intend to sell it and the engraving is either poor or not to the next buyers taste the gun will be next to worthless.

I would guess if an RFD would buy it from you, you'd get only a small percentage of its value in case of non onward sale.

As someone else has already said, either buy an engraved gun or spend the money on cartridges. 

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I tend to keep things till they die, at some point, once I have made my fortune, I would love have to have a sidelock with a couple of views from home engraved. It will either be left to someone for whom it will also have meaning or be buried with me. 
 

If this is a keeper get something on it that will make you smile every time you see it. 
 

If you sell/exchange guns either the enjoyment value to you has to be worth whatever drop in value the gun takes, or it’s not worth doing. 

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33 minutes ago, reindeer said:

To me the plain action matches the laminated furniture on this gun to perfection. I think any added engraving would just disturb the clean and minimalistic image this gun presents.

The furniture is the trigger guard and top lever, not the woodwork.

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