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 A monograph on the history, importance and current production of the company
F.lli Piotti based in Gardone V.T., Italy. At the end of the 1960s F.lli Piotti
was admitted to the small and extremely select group of the world's finest
firearms makers and set out on a journey towards international prominence.
Talking about a F.lli Piotti firearm today means talking about one of the best
expression of craftsmanship available on the market painstakingly created
individually, by skilled hands.
The book takes the reader right into the Piotti workshop where he or she can
follow the crafting of F.lli Piotti firearms from billets of steel, used to
make actions and other small parts, to finished firearms. The Piotti workshop
contains some of the most precise metal working equipment for the shaping of steel.
However, once a raw billet of steel has been shaped to the tolerances demanded by the
Piotti brothers, the fitting, internal and external finishing, stocking,
assembling etc is performed by hand.
F.lli Piotti can offer a very wide range of products: Boss-type
over-and-under shotguns, true sidelocks, Anson & Deely side-by-side
shotguns and external hammer guns.
Express rifles are available in a
variety of calibers and shotguns can be chambered for any bore from 12
to the small .410. All F.lli Piotti firearms are built on frames and
with small parts sized to the calibers. Connoisseurs of the very finest
firearms can easily appreciate the know-how and the efforts made by the
Piotti brothers.
The book contains black and white photographs and colour plates which
showcase the engravings (from standard to custom-made ones) of some of Italy's finest master firearms engravers. It involves the reader in every facet of a Piotti firearm's creation. The secrets of demibloc barrel making are revealed, as well as the steps involved in jointing a set of barrels to their action.
The book illustrates the creation of an Holland-Holland type sidelock, the polishing of an action, the finishing of a stock and the fire testing of a finished firearm.
F.lli Piotti - Italian Fine Gun Maker, contains 220 pages within its
leatherette hard cover and a colour dust jacket. Text is in Italian with
a parallel English translation. Production and printing have been carefully
supervised in order to offer a book that complements the value of the Gun
Maker based in Gardone V.T.
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