Post by butlersrangers on Feb 14th, 2020 at 9:38pm
A bit more progress on the project:
The 'cut-down' rifle stock has been tapered to blend with the carbine barrel-band. The rifle 'finger grooves' have been reworked to mimic the model 1896 carbine stock grooves.
A wrecked model 1896 rifle hand-guard has been turned in to a semblance of a model 1896 carbine hand-guard. (Someone had lengthened the sight opening of this model 1896 hand-guard to use it with a model 1901 sight).
Next steps will be to sculpt the forearm 'tip', install a barrel-band spring, and fill rifle butt-swivel mortise.
Ultimately, the Italian walnut stock will be refinished to better match the black walnut hand-guard.
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The 'cut-down' rifle stock has been tapered to blend with the carbine barrel-band. The rifle 'finger grooves' have been reworked to mimic the model 1896 carbine stock grooves.
A wrecked model 1896 rifle hand-guard has been turned in to a semblance of a model 1896 carbine hand-guard. (Someone had lengthened the sight opening of this model 1896 hand-guard to use it with a model 1901 sight).
Next steps will be to sculpt the forearm 'tip', install a barrel-band spring, and fill rifle butt-swivel mortise.
Ultimately, the Italian walnut stock will be refinished to better match the black walnut hand-guard.
a_work_in_progress-7.jpg ( 60 KB | 1
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a_work_in_progress-8.jpg ( 61 KB | 2
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a_work_in_progress-9.jpg ( 85 KB | 0
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