I'm looking for help/advice on putting the final touches to a new forend. I ordered one from EFD (the last one they're gonna have for a good while). The quality was very good and I have no complaints, but it is missing two features the originals have. First the outer band retaining pin is not drilled or fitted. Not a big deal just a little bit hairy drilling the hole, if I can't find the steel pin I can make one. The thing causing me the most head scratching is the brass cross pin at the butt end of the forearm. On the No1 Mk Is it looks like it is a piece of brass bar riveted with brass burrs at both ends. I'd like to get the thing as close to spec as possible, but I'm also wary of effing the whole thing up for the sake of a brass cross pin. Currently I'm weighing these options:
1. Do nothing
2. Use a pice of threaded brass like on later models (if I can find a longer piece than the bits I have)
3. Cut some pieces of brass and counter sink the wood and glue them in just to make it look right
4. Round off some brass nuts and get brass threaded bar and do it that way
5. Hope that someone out there has either correct parts, knows how it is done properly, or has better ideas
I've got some old smashed forends to practice on
Any help appreciated and I intend to shoot it too
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