I was sitting in the tire shop yesterday looking through our local newspaper waiting for them to get done with my truck, when I ran across this old photo below.
It's an old photo of some of the Fajen Gunstock employees from somewhere between '74 and '79. The man sitting second from left with the shaggy black hair is my father, this was taken when he was about my age. Sadly dad passed away a couple months ago, or I'm sure he could've told me everyone of those guys names. I know the man standing off to the right is Reinhardt Fajen himself.
My brother and I now have Dad's guns, several of them stocked while he was working at Fajen's. Interesting to note that if they had a "bad" piece of wood (a couple of checks or cracks that could be patched, but not sold to the customer), they could either buy it at extremely low cost or Mr. Fajen would just give them the piece.
They could work on the stock in their time off or on their lunch breaks using any equipment they needed. They would also trade off work to each other, so of you were a checkering man and needed some inletting work done, you'd just have to checker the stock of whoever inletted yours later.
It was neat to run across this old pic of "simpler" times, and to have another old photo of dad.
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