DIANA mod.45 cutaway  

Yes there is some value, to be sure. Can I have some pics for the gallery please?

Could you email me the pics?

My email on the final page of this magazine:

https://issuu.com/garvin3/docs/airgun_collector

Ill send some pics to your email as soon as I can.  I tried to post so here with no luck!   Thanks Tim

@garvin   Down loaded 6 pics to VAG Photo Host but not sure how to move them to my forum posts?  Thanks

*Janitor edit

@tims-antiques

Loaded for you.

Thanks Tim and Citizen K. 🙂

This is a great website and enjoy it a lot! THANKS TO ALL 

@citizen-k  I completely agree with Tims Antiques.  This is a great website - not because of the layout... I am very familiar with that, but because of the content.  I am like a child in a bantam coop.  I browsed through a few threads today and found no discussions of O-rings and/or regulators.  Not a word about a scuba cylinder.  Fantastic.  

I found the link to this site on airrifle.co.za today.  I became a member of this site today.  I found this thread because it was interesting to me.  I found your reply to this thread by accident.  All I need to find now is the "Introduce yourself" button for this site.

It is an absolute pleasure to see you on this byway.  Thumbs up emoji. 

@tims-antiques  To cut an air rifle open like this for display and illustration purposes is no easy feat.  Really great work.  

@andre-springer

I agree with you Andre, this one was done really well. But cutaways are definitely not all equally well done. A lot of the Diana cutaways - and there are many of them - were done to an extremely high standard, by what looks like expert machinists, but some, unfortunately including the pistol that I have, are not up to that standard, with evidence of less than excellent workmanship.

This makes me think it was a task set apprentices, perhaps. I wonder what happened to those workers whose work wasn't up scratch? Presumably they were made to sweep the floor for a little while longer, or maybe canned altogether?!

Example of what I mean:

https://forum.vintageairgunsgallery.com/vintage-diana-air-pistols/diana-model-6/#post-3251