Not that it’s tradition to post old-school print rag articles here, but, this is some killer gunsmithing, and some out of the box thinking from days of yore by the esteemed old German.
https://americanhandgunner.com/handg...double-action/
L.W. Seecamp was trained as a master gunsmith in pre-WWII Germany, a grueling process that could involve having to make your own gun — barrel and all — from raw steel with a file. John Lachuk’s description of the decade or so it took Augustus Pachmayr to become a master gunsmith is enlightening, especially in our current world where melting divots in a plastic gun is considered “gunsmithing.”