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LongRifle75: With time and oil the colour contrast will fade plus dowels and plugs look pretty nice- a sign of old school craftsmanship. I recently bought a P14 with at least 5 patches in it largely because of the patch work which is amazing. You could try some dark walnut penetrating stain on your light coloured dowels and that might help.
Ridolpho
You would be amazed at how dark the light coloured dowels will turn with even just a little bit of RLO. I've been working on a No1 MkIII* wood set for about a month now and you can't hardly see the dowels for how dark they are.
Still, I would like to see what the original screw really looks like.
The one I took out of an old fore-end looked like something from a dracula film! A real old rusty, alightly bent thing that looked almost hand made. We had a spec for the screw..... I think it was a 2" long No8, countersunk, flat, slot head, woodscrew that didn't go right through the fore-end. To be honest, going right through the fore-end would seem to partially defeat the object really
Oops, Peter is dead right - I was thinking of the Ishapore bolts I've seen on Indian SMLEs which go right through a-la Frankenstein... if the screw doesn't come out the other side, your repair shouldn't either - just take the 1/4 drill bit down as far as you think correct, glue in the dowel, and use the 1/2 inch plug only on one side.
Sorry for that.
Pulled this from a scrap Ishapore forend. 1.61" long with a blunted tip, 0.19" shank dia. and 0.39" head dia. The screw went completely through and I think the tip was cut off after installation.Quote:
Originally Posted by villiers
Attachment 42660
Screw size is #10
See what I mean about hand made...............
LongRifle75: That wasn't an Ishapore screw but a cross-bolt used to to strengthen the forend along with wire wrapping for grenade launching. You can see the evidence of the wire wrap. Were it mine I'd be tempted to but a bolt back and find out how to replicate the wire wrap as well as buy a cup grenade launcher. It would make for a correct restoration of an interesting rifle that would still be perfectly usable.
Ridolpho