New fixer-upper 1891 Carcano Cavalry Carbine

[Aragorn243]

I've had two days to work in this, probably spent a total of 8 hours on it. The stock was treated with two coatings of citris strip and two coatings of wood bleach on the rust stained areas, rubbed down with steel wool and given one coat of BLO. The cracks were glued, I did use the dreaded sandpaper on the butt stock crack repair.

The metal was scraped with the flat edge of a screwdriver to knock the heavy rust off, wire brushed and lightly steel wooled. The magazine is showing some pitting but everything else cleaned up pretty well. I tried to take the same photos for comparison but this is with flash rather than sunlight as it is now getting dark here.

Let me know what you think.

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I'm not done with it but was anxious to get it back together. Probably won't get much time to work on it again for a while. I want to go over it again very closely for rust that I may have missed.