Consider this a biased post in some ways as both the gentlemen I am posting about are personal friends of mine:

1. David Norin in Waukegan IL, an ACGG member gunsmith who does a beautiful job of reproducing the exact colours that the British coloured their guns with in case hardening and blueing. Dave works with several British gunsmiths and businesses these days and also builds complate rifles from scratch

2. B Ka'imiloa Chrisman in Arizona whose hammer double restoration project I posted here some time ago, taken from the pages of a magazine. He is a retired plastic surgeon who studied engraving under Rachel Wells and who works on restoring mostly BPE doubles though he also restores NE guns

If you would like to talk to either of them, I could introduce you on e-mail and you could then decide.

Cheers!