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this site GRIFON Co. is pleased to present its activity - decoration of
guns and blank weapons (engravings, incrustations), production of limited
series up to 5 pieces of artistically decorated and finely hand made authorial knives, production of unique operating models, miniature single-action
and automatic guns. The company was founded by Alexander Gevgalov, a hereditary
armourer and graduate at a prestigeous arms school in the specialty Production
of small arms. His knowledge in armoury he perfected at the Research Institute
of the Defence Industry for nearly five years. Alexander is a member of
the Masters Society for People's Arts and Crafts since 1991. In 1993 he
registered his company GRIFON which quickly established itself on the Bulgarian
Arms Market and Alexander Gevgalov came to be a leader in his field not
only owing to his ambitions, good education and background but most of all
owing to the rare combination of his armourer's talent and gun engraving
craftsmanship. Well-known and authoritative people at home and abroad have
placed prestigeous orders with him. Alexander has engaved guns for the Arab
World (1996-1997), for HEYM - 2002 , he has inlaid the signature of the famous Michael Kalashnikov
on exclusive samples of the Kalashnikov AK-47 automatic gun, accompanied
with a notarially certified letter of attorney and the designer's personal
signature. A number of Bulgarian ministers, businessmen and other people
from the Bulgarian elite have been his clients. With the beauty and exquisiteness
of the pattern, the complicated subject and delicate workmanship, Alexander's
engravings revive the cold steel even on such "austere tools" as guns. There
is also exceptional interest in the miniature operating models - smoothbore
and rifled guns and especially in self-loading and automatic guns, designed
and made by Alexander Gevgalov. It is well known to all fanciers of miniature
arms how much extensive designer's knowledge, experience and skills are
necessary to "fit" the mechanism of an original gun into the manyfold reduced
space of the miniature model while achieving full operability of the gun.
Outstanding is Alexander Gevg alov's
passion for the workmanship of operating copies of richly decorated historic
front-loading guns. His knack for achieving maximum exactness with the original
is a result of his great erudition in the field of historic arms and his
exceptional skills in fine workmanship. Parallel with this Alexander Gevgalov
improves the technical characteristics of the guns by using high-quality
up-to-date materials. GRIFON Co has been a regular particiapant in specialized
exhibitions and shows of arms engravings, miniatures and historic guns in
the country and abroad including: the exhibition at the Bulgarian Parliament
in 1998, The International Arms Show "HEMUS" in 2000, the exhibition of
the Bulgarian Chamber of Craftsmanship in 2002., the exhibition in the Month
of the European Culture in 2000, etc. GRIFON Co is also known in the country
with its armoury where the talented armourer Alexander Gevgalov offers design
modifications on the Bulgarian Arms Market improving the characteristics
of the standard arms such as: workmanship of new trigger and striking mechanisms,
new optical sights, various accessories and devices for fixing optical sights,
ergonomic and design modifications of various weapon systems. Today GRIFON
Co, resolved to extend its international contacts, is in search to realize
its skills and abilities through orders from armament factories, associations,
organizations, collectors and fans. GRIFON Co is pleased to present to its
current and future clients in the GALLERY section part of its authorial knives, gun engravings,
miniature models and front-loading historic guns.
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