Where to find a Lee Enfield Cheek Piece in Canada?

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Usually shop at Numrich, but as they are closed until further notice and international shipping is a crap shoot these days, any source in Canada? (Lee Enfield No4Mk1 / No5Mk1)
 
If you're looking for a real one????????????

If you're handy and a good replica will do, I've done this in the past.

Take a bubbaed butt stock, which can usually be had for the asking at a local gun shop or $5 at most and cut the top off, Scrape/sand off everything that doesn't look like a cheek piece. Drill some appropriate holes and finish with BLO. The first one you do will take a couple of hours. After that maybe an hour. Just be careful and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.

No, I don't do them for anyone else.

Give it a go. If you're like most of us presently, you have lots of time on your hands.
 
Where to find right screw without buying boxes and at reasonable prices? Cant find vintage style woodscrew at local hardware depot
 
fredqc said:
Where to find right screw without buying boxes and at reasonable prices? Cant find vintage style woodscrew at local hardware depot
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At gunshows, when they start up again. Maybe at your local gunshop??

You can't always get it all right, just because you want it.

When the US borders open again, the screws you're looking for will be available but the cost of only a few ill be outrageous.

If you're at all mechanically inclined, you will be able to make do one way or another. In the past, I have taken screws and chucked them up in drills and ground the heads on a piece of 100 grit strip cloth to achieve the desired shape, then blued them for color. They're pretty obviously not real. Somehow I doubt your No4 T isn't real either??

IMHO, a couple of dollars for a half dozen wood screws isn't unreasonable.
 
Screw, wood, 1-1/4"x No. 8 G1/GA 1330 (front) [Can ignore G1/GA 1330 as it is a military part number]

Screw, wood, 1-1/2" x No. 8 G1/GA 8138 (rear) [Can ignore G1/GA 8138 as it is a military part number]

"Steel or brass were perfectly acceptable alternatives."

(An Armourer's Perspective by Peter Laidler with Ian Skennerton p. 14)
 
I do restorations of a lot of older equipment, and my go to guys for slot drive screws and non-plated fasteners is Blacksmith Bolt and Rivet Supply in the US. They have the screws you are after for 9¢ each. But the postage from the US will negate the savings you would be having. They have a few simple rules when it comes to fasters: no hex, phillips or zinc. A lot of their fasteners come blackened. I highly recommend them for restoration projects.
 
I got an Israeli wood m14 stock that had the Enfield type cheek piece re engineered for scope use years ago
 
stencollector said:
Bassano Bob....there is a name I have not heard in a while.
Hank H in Calgary makes very nice reproductions. I have used them on some of my restorations.
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Would you happen to have contact info for either gent
I tried making one but my ambition outweighs my talent in this area
Please and thank you
 
fredqc said:
Where to find right screw without buying boxes and at reasonable prices? Cant find vintage style woodscrew at local hardware depot
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Get a "free to good home" vintage donor piano. They are a gold mine of slotted head screws.
 
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