![]() ![]() ![]() Chuck traded painting for three new disciplines - black-smithing, woodworking and engraving - and combines all three to create one-of-a-kind pieces that are not only fully functional, but highly collectable.Ī lifelong woodsman and childhood fan of the television exploits of Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, Chuck enjoyed the experience of finally shooting a flintlock. To say the painter-turned-gunsmith completely abandoned his artistic inspiration, however, wouldn’t be true. ![]() “So I had to pick, and I picked muzzleloaders.” “When I was at the easel doing paintings I’d think, ‘Man, I’d rather be in the shop working on a gun.’ And when I was in the shop working on guns, I’d think, ‘Man, I need to be back in there on the easel,’” Chuck says. After firing a friend’s flintlock rifle for the first time, his artistic inspiration changed with a flash and a bang. A keen eye for detail led him to pursue western art as a portraitist. The arc of Chuck Edwards’ life has always followed twin themes: history and art. ![]()
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