1888 Commission Rifle

[muffett.2008]

Thats the pins that appear to be welded, the seam around the mating surfaces is where it appears to be silver soldered, it's just too neat a join to be just sitting there.

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[vintage hunter]

Thats the pins that appear to be welded,

That's a good possibility but I tend to believe any welding would've been done as a repair to ''tighten up'' a guide where the rivets worked loose. Perhaps this is what led to the belief the guides were welded instead of riveted as mentioned in post 3.

the seam around the mating surfaces is where it appears to be silver soldered.

I've looked at a good many close up photo's of 88/05 charger guides and I've yet to see anything that would suggest they were attached by any method other than riveting. Soldering generally leaves a tell tail bright ring at the joint and I've seen no evidence of it so far.

too neat a join to be just sitting there.

Joints between parts with machined mating surfaces can be awful hard to see, especially 100+ years later when any minute gaps would've long since filled with fine crud and/or rust.