Does anyone here remember the Cleveland Gun Smith Carl Strebelowe ? This is an age check! roger

I'm really surprised some of you older guys didn't know or have heard of him. He was in my opinion the best gunsmith in the Cleveland area in the mid 40s to late 60s.He did almost all of the gun work for the police dept.As a young man he was one of my heros and mentors. As a mentor ,while working with him as an apprentice,He said " Roger, best you go to school cause you're never going to amount to much as a gunsmith. Troubling for me at the time but in retrospect *** Accurate! roger

As a guy who grew up in Mentor, the only two gunsmiths I was aware of were Heckman and Art Hart.

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Originally posted by tin can:
As a guy who grew up in Mentor, the only two gunsmiths I was aware of were Heckman and Art Hart.

When was that Tin Can? roger

I'm HS class of '71.

Hart had a gun shop in Chesterland for years after he was no longer "Hart Arms" (IIRC) in Cleveland.

Heckman had a shop on Hayden Avenue.

there was a fellow on 152nd Street who I think might have been your man- someone else asked me about the fellow on 152nd Street, and the business there he worked for, some years back on these boards.


~those were the days: if you got bored on a Sunday, you loaded up a Volks Wagen with various pistols, rifles, shotguns, bags/boxes/cans of ammo, a few friends, and off to the quarry for some shootin'.

we got pulled over by the sheriff on the way to one of these shoot-outs one time, the deputy looked in the car, said, "You boys doin' some shootin'?", then gave us a ticket for having a broken tail light.

Actually I believe E.152 st. was the closest cross street. The avenue he was on slips my mind. The last I saw Carl was in 1957. He was sleeving a Mod.92,32-20 to make a 218 bee. I moved and never got back to pick it up. roger

in my little world was a smith named Fay Yonker and Jim Roe, Jim moved to Colorado, and Fay moved on RIP.
Little small town gunsmith about 30 miles from cleveland.

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Originally posted by hivelosity:
in my little world was a smith named Fay Yonker and Jim Roe, Jim moved to Colorado, and Fay moved on RIP.
Little small town gunsmith about 30 miles from cleveland.

what town? roger

Fay was from Garrettsville, jim was from Windham. the towns are just a few miles east of Hiram.