Earl, I have one of the Tannenberg exact replica guns in bronze and the overbuilt brass version from Rifle Shoppe longer than half the posters here have been alive I think. Were I you I'd settle for the latter if and when it's available. However... I am glad Rocklock chimed in. I have one of his Morko's and seen his other work...
...perhaps you could convince him to pattern a gonne (should arguably be the most famous and saleable Tannenberg), cast it, and bore it for you (FreekForge can bore it too). Rock is quite the little artisan!
Note there used to be a guy who offered a Morko and a straight-tube gonne. I won't go into details but having had many years of odd on-again/off-again communication I assert that the guy is a psychotic gypsy (I mean this literally knowing how he lives) and pathological liar who apparently only ever had pretty artists renderings produced that look authentic to put on the internet. After about a decade he eventually offered to sell me the patterns but disappeared yet again... If you run across him RUN AWAY FROM HIM!
There is also a gent in Europe who runs a serious blacksmith shop, still around, who makes custom hammer-forged-tube gonnes from scratch. I Can't remember his name offhand or what Scandinavian (I think) country he is in. The wait isn't bad, the paid-in-advance-by-wire price is high albeit not insane by my standards though YMMV (it wasn't Magnus whose prices ARE friggin' insane by ANYBODY's standards) but their demeanor is obnoxious and I chose NOT to do business with him personally.
Good luck.
...perhaps you could convince him to pattern a gonne (should arguably be the most famous and saleable Tannenberg), cast it, and bore it for you (FreekForge can bore it too). Rock is quite the little artisan!
Note there used to be a guy who offered a Morko and a straight-tube gonne. I won't go into details but having had many years of odd on-again/off-again communication I assert that the guy is a psychotic gypsy (I mean this literally knowing how he lives) and pathological liar who apparently only ever had pretty artists renderings produced that look authentic to put on the internet. After about a decade he eventually offered to sell me the patterns but disappeared yet again... If you run across him RUN AWAY FROM HIM!
There is also a gent in Europe who runs a serious blacksmith shop, still around, who makes custom hammer-forged-tube gonnes from scratch. I Can't remember his name offhand or what Scandinavian (I think) country he is in. The wait isn't bad, the paid-in-advance-by-wire price is high albeit not insane by my standards though YMMV (it wasn't Magnus whose prices ARE friggin' insane by ANYBODY's standards) but their demeanor is obnoxious and I chose NOT to do business with him personally.
Good luck.
