Got another Bubba'ed Pattern 1914 Eddystone

[AD-4NA]

You are extremely lucky bubba did not sand or carve the stock down so you could just graft on a new forward section and could skip all the garbage parts of the DP stocks!

Not much help, but if no one here can supply your needs I have seen that ebay has uncut Eddystone dial sight plates come up pretty commonly, sometimes with screws, as I am sure you are aware, it is the rest of the assembly that is the problem. Also if your spare parts bin or a want add does not supply any remaining Eddystone specific metal bits you need I have noticed that BRP guns and liberty tree collectors seem to have some choice of parts versus sarco and numrich sending you whatever garbage they have nowadays that occasionally can even be fakes. But if you have a better source than that for handpicked parts I would love to hear it.

An early rifle like that that missed Weedon would've ended up as one of those really nice matching EY rifles with all the original parts that come up from time to time.
Was the butt of your stock marked EY or stamped with a maltese cross?

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[fjruple]

You are extremely lucky bubba did not sand or carve the stock down so you could just graft on a new forward section and could skip all the garbage parts of the DP stocks!

Not much help, but if no one here can supply your needs I have seen that ebay has uncut Eddystone dial sight plates come up pretty commonly, sometimes with screws, as I am sure you are aware, it is the rest of the assembly that is the problem. Also if your spare parts bin or a want add does not supply any remaining Eddystone specific metal bits you need I have noticed that BRP guns and liberty tree collectors seem to have some choice of parts versus sarco and numrich sending you whatever garbage they have nowadays that occasionally can even be fakes. But if you have a better source than that for handpicked parts I would love to hear it.

An early rifle like that that missed Weedon would've ended up as one of those really nice matching EY rifles with all the original parts that come up from time to time.
Was the butt of your stock marked EY or stamped with a maltese cross?

AD-4NA -- The EY is on the stock, the left side of the receiver and the rear of the barrel next to the serial number. I have seen the large maltese cross on other Pattern 14's this one looks like a very small + stamp inside the British arrow property mark almost cannot see it. I managed to get all of the parts except for the front hand guard and the bits for the front volley sight. It is very tough to find the right parts whcih are still blued from the original production. As soon I get all of the parts in the mail I will start my surgery.

I will post pictures soon as I had to get a new cell phone as mine retired early. I also saw another 1950/60s conversion today. It was a Colombian .30-06 Mauser that was professionally sporterized. Nice job!! But it would have been nice in its original .30-06 configuration.

Cheers

--fjruple

[AD-4NA]

Fair bit of work there but it will be a nice one when you're finished. That just happens to be the second one I've seen today chopped right at the volley sight inletting with a band put right on top of it. Sorry to say you've just missed a few Eddystone dials just in the past couple months but I'm sure some will pop back up again.

You might follow up with some pics of the repairs here or in the restororers corner when you get around to finishing it, I at least would love to see them.