Sharon Dressel is the only one I know of the has actually built a complete rifle or shotgun.

Engravers are not gunmakers. They are artists who embellish metal.

To all gunmaker critics-
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.."- Teddy Roosevelt