Does anyone make accurate reproduction MkV Sten foregrips?

[peregrinvs]

I'd ideally like to return my recently purchased MkV Sten to it's more-or-less 1944 appearance. This being the case I've purchased one of those commonly seen repro foregrips, but discovered when it arrived that the internal diameter of the ring is 41mm. i.e. it is completely useless as it has no grip on the 38mm wide barrel nut and the wood isn't reamed out so that tightening the screw does anything.

I've a nagging suspicion they're all like that. (Maybe the factory in India concerned can't get hold of 38mm internal diameter tube?) Any other ideas?

Cheers,
Mark

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[Peter Laidler]

And they look totally useless don't they? I'd suggest that you simply make one. Machine another piece of tube to suit and you're home and dry.

[Vincent]

Does anyone make accurate reproduction MkV Sten foregrips?

The short answer is, “No.”

[peregrinvs]

Looks like I'll have to mod one of the dodgy repros then. It's doable if I can swap the ring for a correctly sized one and slightly ream out the top of the wooden grip.

[Vincent]

Is this what you have?



The ring is made from 1-5/8” tube that has a 1.509” inside diameter - 38.329mm. It just fits over 1.5” tube. I use the same tubing to make new end cap locking rings for Sterlings.

[Flying10uk]

I guess that you could cut through the tube near the base with a hacksaw and cut out a small piece of the tube then pull the ends together and weld. It all depends on how good you are at welding on how successful this would be. Once the weld has been dressed and the grip fitted to the gun the weld wouldn't be seen because it would be hidden by the grip and the barrel nut.

[Peter Laidler]

Hey....., there's a FAR easier way...... and where there's a will, there's an easy way. Get a strip of banding steel the correct width (it's a stock size) and....... I'll go and make one and get it put up. Save yourselves a whole lot of aggro.

[skiprat]

Are these reproduction grips the correct profile?
The " finger cut outs" look sharp, totally different from the finger grooves on the pistol grip. It's hard to find any good references for the correct profile, in the parts list the front grip dose look like a copy of the pistol grip ( finger cuts profile)

I have tube and some spare time!!!!!!!

[Peter Laidler]

Thew only original one I know of it at Warminster plus mine. There good photos in the little cheap Sten book too that anyone can scale-up.

[Vincent]

With your woodworking skills, Peter, you could make some really good copies of the one you have…. and flog them for a pretty penny.