No 5 Carbine project- Input welcome and appreciated

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First order of buisness ditch the AK sling. Looks like a fun project. Lots of No 5 parts on ebay sprigfield sporters etc..

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First order of buisness ditch the AK sling. Looks like a fun project. Lots of No 5 parts on ebay sprigfield sporters etc..

The sling is long gone. I've been watching SS as well as some other sites and have located a lot of the parts. The hangup is that handguard. Like I say, I'm going to be looking at making one out of a No 4 I found that has no grooves.

Maybe I'm using the wrong term with "restoration", as I'm not wanting to completely take it down to bare metal. I like the used look on my milsurps. What I'm more after is making sure I have it looking correct with correct parts with the right finish. If BLO is the proper finish, then that's what I want to go with. If some kind of other finish is more appropriate for the No 5, then I want to try to replicate it.

A bit of a situation where I know it's never going to be completely original, but I want it as close as I can make it without doing something I shouldn't to maintain some level of accuracy.