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In 2015, we became the first and only shop to offer defarbing services on LeMat revolvers. Over the years that followed we defarbed close to 300 LeMat pistols to be near perfect replicas of the famous revolvers carried by the likes of JEB Stuart and Stonewall Jackson. All of these guns were re-worked in-house by the shop's owner, David Stavlo. David's attention to detail in reworking the LeMat revolver was second-to-none, as he even went as far as to recreate the original "*LM" proofmark found on originals guns; having a die made from an original LeMat proofmark which we were able to obtain. David's LeMat defarbing service was even featured in the Fall 2017 issue of Guns of the Old West magazine. Sadly however, we are a small shop that offers a wide array of services. In order to keep up with the demands of other defarb work, combined with regular repair work, restorations and complete custom builds, we were forced to discontinue all pistol defarb services in 2020. As the demand for gunsmithing services increased, David just couldn't keep up. While we are no longer able to offer defarbing services on customer-supplied revolvers, we have been able to obtain a few Griswold and Spiller & Burr revolvers to defarb and sell through our website. However, LeMat pistols have been extremely hard to come by; which is why we're very excited to offer this particular revolver: which is only the third LeMat to be defarbed by David since we stopped our revolver defarbing services more than four years ago. David built this gun to be a true Confederate-owned LeMat. He began by carefully removing all the modern markings from the cylinder, frame and both barrels. He also removed the scroll engraving from the cylinder; which is correct for a Confederate-imported LeMat. He then stamped the serial number on the barrel, frame, and cylinder - the same locations as the originals, using dies that are a near perfect copy of the originals used by the LeMat factory. He also replicated the origin