Gehendra Untouched Restoration With Photos

[Aragorn243]

Figured since the original one was getting large with no photos, I'll start off a new one.

Got this I think Monday two weeks ago. On sale for $225 with free shipping from IMA. On first glance, didn't look too bad, just dirty. All parts seemed to be there and appeared functional for the most part. First few days were just getting it apart. Then I spent some time cleaning both the metal and the wood.

Metal spent about 5 hours in an electrolysis bath after manually scraping off the old grease crud. Bore just needed a few pads run through it. All but the last two inches are shiny with no pitting. Last two inches does have some pitting and some rust which is being a bit difficult to get out.

Wood received two treatments of Citristrip. I glued the three cracks in the forestock with Gorrilla Glue and then opted to dig out the rot by the stock pins and replace it with walnut.

Pitting on barrel is significant but not sure enough to prevent firing. I've seen worse. Firing spring is an issue, it is a replacement and it is broken. Missing a metal block to prevent cleaning rod from entering the mechanism. Should be an easy fix other than stabilizing the heavy rot in this area. Using Imgur now.

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