Lithgow forend reinforcing piece on e***

[Cantom]

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Thought it might be interesting, Lithgow trying to cure the cracking problem with coachwood forends.

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[Stevo]

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Thought it might be interesting, Lithgow trying to cure the cracking problem with coachwood forends.

It did cure the problem. Those are standard in all genuine Lithgow coachwood stocks.

Some of the JJCo rifles were built from parts and do not have the plates.

[Son]

The part he is selling is a double pinned stock bolt retainer- the plate at the back of the foreend. Lithgow fitted these with pins going foreward to the recoil lugs on the action. Before this they had used walnut inserted recoil blocks from 1927 to 1934. Shortly after they went to the copper recoil plates which were discontinued as a wartime expediency in December '42, and applied again it May '43.

In the past few years there had been a lot of '43 dated foreends, new, unnissued, raw coachwood sold that did not have the recoil plates fitted. The ones JJco used to build their parts rifles mostly fit the description of this era of production as well.

I have re-produced the double pinned stock bolt retainer, but have found that the pins travel through the brass threaded re-enforcing wire that runs across the rear of the foreend. Now I am experimenting with an aluminium bedding block for my previously sportered Lithgow.....