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Posted: 9/28/2014 7:30:56 PM EDT
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Trial assembly today. Finally have all the metal pieces cased, blued, nitred, polished, etc.
Forend still needs checkered and buttstock needs more finish work, but parts were all over my tiny shop and I was concerned I'd lose or damage something. Now safely locked in my safe. I'll pull the wood off in a few days when I am doing some other finish/checkering. Looks to me that it will be quite nice when finished. 
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Nicely done. What are the plans for the crack in the buttstock? One of the very first things that was taken care of. Also damage in the head of the stock, a crack near the tang screw and couple of cracks in the forend. Rear sight was also tweaked pretty badly. Clearly the rifle had been dropped at least once. At some point, a previous owner had drilled a hole in the butt and filled it with about two pounds of lead. 
I drilled and chiseled the lead out. While not obvious in the pics above, the crack intersected the hollow in the butt. Carefully spread the crack, then glued it up with West System epoxy. After it set up, I made a very close fitting plug for the hollow and epoxied it in place, which reinforced the repair quite nicely. Then shaped the plug using chisels to match the shaping under the buttplate and the plug is almost invisible. 
You can also see in the last pic how terrible the finish was. It took three different products until I finally had it all of the stock just using stiff bristle brushes, as I didn't want to use sandpaper and have the wood end up below the metal surface. |
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Nice work to a classic rifle.
Note that unless the bolt has been replaced with a newer model, DO NOT fire modern High Speed .22 ammo. These rifles were made for lower pressure ammo and firing High Speed ammo will crack the bolt. Shoot ONLY Standard Velocity ammo. |
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