Samething a bit different.

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Originally Posted by browningautorifle

I would save the misery and just order one. Should show up with the spring and rivets...

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One person's misery is another's hobby. I quite like the challenge. I have the metalwork already.

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Originally Posted by BurtonP

One person's misery is another's hobby.

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Did you already show us one you had made from scratch?

Yeah Jim, this blunderbuss.:D

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Right...then you have no issues making a piece like that from a block of select...

Very nice job!!

May not be much but chcek out Liberty Tree collectors. Frank
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Originally Posted by Frank46

May not be much but chcek out Liberty Tree collectors. Frank
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I would, but shipping any gun parts from the US to Canada has become almost impossible right now, even if you stay under the $100 limit.
Regards,
Burton

Here's an update on the BSA No III project. I finally finished the hand-made top hanguard, stained and oiled it up and fitted it. I thought I had a spare metal end for it, but damned if I can find it. Please overall with the result. I took it out shooting recently too. It needs work, but didn't do anything it shouldn't.

Looks good as usual.

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I'm curious how it will perform at the range - whether the stock immediately splits! The former owner neglected the draws, presumably expecting the butt to take the recoil. I'm not so confident, so will be building it up so that it has support at the draws and the stock. Any advice would be appreciated on this subject. Does anyone know how the originals were bedded?

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The cure for the one-piece stock was to make it out of laminated "plywood" as Long Branch experimented with later.

Perhaps the lightweight rifle project had been dropped by the time the laminated stocks were being experimented with.