M1 Carbine woodwork

[lboos]

Thanks Iboos same Carbine, different dress! The original leather on my carbine butt is rather fragile, so I carefully honeycomb leather oiled it, wrapped it and put the pouch over the top to protect it. The padding and pouch certainly give a better cheek weld.

I understand, same carbine diff. dress.
My cheek pad looks like it was replaced years ago ??? not sure, but still in good shape. it did have the wrong rivets in it, I drilled them out and ordered the correct rivets from ebay and replaced them with a small ball peen hammer and a center punch. I'm sure if you have enough cheek pad leather left you could make a pattern and replace it, maybe with some well worn leather ? an easy job.
A few pic's.

[jimb16]

The original leather was cut to shape and stretched to fit. It did not have those forming cuts that you see in the photo. The bottom was a smooth fit. I believe the leather was also just a bit thinner.

[lboos]

The original leather was cut to shape and stretched to fit. It did not have those forming cuts that you see in the photo. The bottom was a smooth fit. I believe the leather was also just a bit thinner.

I said it had been replaced years ago, not original .
So far today, your 100%.

[jimb16]

I think I'll just crawl back into my hole and not bother to come out again. BTW My old man was one of the original 101st Glider infantry when it was first created....

[lboos]

jimb16,
Your lucky to have a real WW-2 white tongue patch, the real ones are hard to find. no one really knows why that company came out with the white ones, it could have been a shortage of the red dye at that time, kinda like the lucky strike cig. co. in 1942 had to change from a green pkg. to a red and white color because of the shortage of the green dye for all the OD color for uniforms and web gear etc. just a guess ? different times.

The white tongue patches are more collectible, and if it were mine and had belonged to my dad no amount of money could buy it.
Would still like to see a pic. of it.

[jimb16]

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[mrclark303]

Here she is after her initial range outing, seen alongside a fellow Milsurpers beautiful Garand that I managed to eject a full Enblock worth of .30-06 into the mud by 'Carbine charging' instead of slapping the charging lever forward!!

All fingers and thumbs yesterday....

Groups slightly bigger than the M1A1 stock.....

[lboos]

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[browningautorifle]

Nice lookin' pair. Nice material on that M1 rifle stock.

[jimb16]

forgot how to post pictures.....