How desperate are you to fix this SMLE front handguard?

[eggwelder]

nice job on that lou. i found that oven cleaner gets a huge amount of grease out, especially on the really bad ones.

i have a rear hand guard that split in 2 thru the rivet holes. it will be fun to repair. then i have to make new rivets.

But the one thing that I did learn from it was don't try to hide wood patching, show it off. Here endeth the lesson as they say in all the good books

something like this? i don't know how to make the picture smaller