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    Military Style Percussion Musket Restoration Project - Free to good home - SE England

    Hi,

    I bought this about 10 years ago. Got as far as taking it apart and then decided repairing the woodwork was a bit beyond me. It has been languishing in bits ever since.

    Free to a good home if you can collect it from Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire. (by junction 8 of the M11)

    AFAIK the metalwork is all there. The main problem will be repairing or replacing the stock. If you can do that, you should have quite a handsome wall hanger.

    PM me if interested.

    Cheers,
    Mark

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    Please stipulate the provision of "after" photos.

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    Well I'm collecting it tonight after contacting Mark. I will indeed post some pics after the resto but timescale wise my projects can be best measured in ice ages sometimes so it may be a while.

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    So it turned out to be a be a pretty quick resoration in the end as it is what it is, a Khyber pass special and an out and out wall hanger, It's fully functional but it'd be beyond unwise to fire it. All the bits were indeed there except one barrel pin which I had to make, the rest of the lock cleaned up well, the barrel bore was a little rusy and blocked, not with powder and ball thankfully and couple of days full of vinegar sorted that out. The mainspring swivel needed a bit of welding and reshaping to get that functioning and for the stock I decided the best thing was to epoxy it together, pin it to the barrel let it set then make good the joint. The wood was very old and dry as a bone so got plenty of pure linseed oilicon diluted with a little pure turps and came up....ok.
    Was thinking to give it to a pal of mine as a present but got quite attached to it as it came together, surely everyone needs one example of a khyber pass firearm in their collection.
    It kind of mostly resembles an East India Company F pattern musket but with a Brown Bess flavour so will have a place next to my genuine F pattern.
    Thanks again to Mark for letting me have it, it's found a good home and not going anywhere.

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