New fixer-upper 1891 Carcano Cavalry Carbine

[Aragorn243]

I just finished cleaning up the rear sling metal. It came out alright. There is pitting on the outside of the metal of this real sling metal and on the outside metal at both screw holes of the magazine and the inside of the butt plate. All is hidden when the parts are installed so I'm just going to stabilize them and let them alone, they are plenty solid. The butt plate came out a lot better than I expected. Got the rust off and it still maintains a patina although a mottled one. That was the one obvious thing that was covered with heavy rust. Stock is going through it's second coat of the spray orange stuff. Lots of black came off the first time around.

This is after preliminary cleaning: