Aussie bayonet

[Detroit-1]

Now all you need is a double- sided stitched scabbard to make it complete!

[browningautorifle]

If you tack-welded the Lanchester bayonet bracket

I thought the bayonet bracket and mag housing on Lanchester were brass?? I saw them in the hands of Turks and they shone like new coins...

[Peter Laidler]

Nope....., the bayonet bracket on ours/ RN and RAN and RNZN (HMNZS Blackpool as I recall) in the Far East were cast steel bayonet/sling loop brackets. But I could be wrong as I am going from memory. Any otherrs out there.......

[browningautorifle]

I forget where I got the idea Peter. I've thought that for 40 years though. I just remember the Turk weapons needed a bit of...how shall I say...care? I remember an MP38 out in Ormaphita fields that had not a lick of finish on it, shone like a new silver coin in the desert sun. His mag pouches were stark white...