Custom G date Carbine

[Edward Tinker]

I will take better pictures tomorrow and replace these

Okay, this is the story on my carbine that Eugene made for me. Let me start off that I am amazed at the quality and care taken into it, although it took about a year longer than I would have liked. That said, I am pleased, very.
3/13/2013 I talked to Eugene about a carbine, we discussed type, payment and timeframe. He was honest that it would be at least 18 months. This was after Dwight and I published Police Lugers; so when we discussed a carbine, I decided on something unconventional, but fitting in with one of my collecting interests, Weimar era and police. I had picked up a parts G date and decided that this would make an interesting item for my collection. To me, the K and then G dates were the end of the Weimar – the Nazi’s were taking over the country and Mauser started producing in the clear as Germany, in their eyes, threw off the shackles of the allied countries from WW1.

Probably an early or late Simson would have been cool, but I wanted an item that signified as an end of the collecting era that I like and this fits it (in my opinion). I also knew that if I was going to have Eugene make me a carbine, I wanted one that would never be confused with an original and since I wanted one that was shootable and with two matching magazines.

The G date was the start of it, with two Haenel police magazines. Eugene replaced the bottoms with two blank bottoms made by GT. This turns out that it was likely an error on my part, although the magazines are perfect for this (made likely in the mid-1920’s to late 1920’s), the ‘flat’ follower button and these magazines go into the magazine well with a fair bit of resistance. It is likely why the flat button magazines did not last that long! However, a Mec-Gar or my Swiss magazine slips in like butter!

The carbine has a deep bluing to it that is very beautiful to look at, and the wood chosen has deep figure in it, with the same wood used for the grips.

Today I went to Eugene’s shop, he has a complete set up of making practically anything gun related. He has CNC capability, bluing, strawing, engraving, set up, etc. I saw that at anyone time he was in the process of about 30 projects, so, and I told him I was going to say this, that his worst characteristic is that he takes on too many projects, thus taking too long. And I imagine that new projects sometimes interest him more than the ones present ones. By the way, I specifically asked about ‘berks’ C96 and its in the works, I nicely reminded him that you’d asked me to ask him. I did so…

My overall judgment is much like others who have gotten a product from him, it takes much longer than we’d like, but his work is excellent.