JAN. 1st: Finished! - Just to show that I'm still going at it... (P14 stock repair)

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It's been a slow few month refurb-wise (everything else in my life being crazy these days). But, just to show that I'm still doing my part to refurb milsurps, here's a stock getting repaired so it can be reunited with a barreled action (which has now good headspace thanks to CGN member Andy). (Speaking of whom: Hey Andy that stock may look familiar!)

I plan on finishing that rifle before the holidays. I hope!

Lou

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Sigh...... I guess I should get busy again too. I've got a stock to repair, and a No1 tanker to finish, but that is going to require building a custom nose cap and some interesting topwood.

Nice work Lou
 
Thanks guys.

Yeah woodchopper, get to work! :D

5440, I should have taken pics of the first few steps, but the Mrs was away with the camera yesterday. I will for sure next time I do similar work. I will take pics of the next few steps on this one too (should resume work tonight). Now doing a repair like this one looks more complicated than it actually is. It's quite fun.

Lou
 
Lou

I gots to know, do you repair your Enfield stocks using the regular or the delicate cycle and do you use fabric softener after shaping and sanding.

Sorry…… :D but please notice I didn’t ask any questions about duct tape

P.S. Very nice work Lou ;)
 
Here's where I am tonight. Not perfect, but I hope once stained the remaining irregular areas will not be too apparent (can feel them with the finger, but can't remove more wood to even them out because there's so much wood you can remove!). Always tricky to just get it right, without going too far...

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I've finished doing the fine fitting of the barreled action in the forend. This required carving out some grooves for the rear handguard retaining ring. Small detail but interesting job to do.

Now I need to fix a damaged handguard to go with this!

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Well I've been busy lately with other stuff, sorry, progress is slow...

Here's where I am right now.

I started on the handguard. It had two long cracks and a missing chunk.
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I decided to work on the cracks first.
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The cracks will need a few touch ups (bubble in the glue), but I'll deal with this after the chunk is repaired. I cut some wood off to have a clean section to work with. I will shape the replacement wood (soon...) and post pictures after that step is done... I know I'm not fast!
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It's a lot of work for a simple P14 rear handguard but it's fun. Plus, finding a replacement rear handguard isn't easy, for some reason!
 
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It's a lot of work for a simple P14 rear handguard but it's fun. Plus, finding a replacement rear handguard isn't easy, for some reason!
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I remember picking up a few of them at Epps for about $5 a piece, great condition, too.

Never hurts to ask around.

BTW, where do you get replacement walnut? I've been looking for some to replace a set of DP holes in one of my stocks. No one seems to have any scraps they are willing to part with.
 
Well I finally got some time off and decided to finish the repair on that handguard.

Here's the part that I preshaped for the repair. I left lots of spare on the exterior side. The interior side had to be shaped more precisely to fit on the metal part.
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Here's the part glued and clamped. Too bad the clamp is hiding the two wooden dowels that I put in vertically for reinforcement (they actually are tooth picks, because it's a pretty small repair).
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That was done yesterday. Now this morning, I started sanding. Here's the part after about half the final shaping done.
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And here it is with shaping done. The laundry room is full of sawdust but I can clean up before the Mrs comes down :D
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I would have liked to better "aim" with my drill when I made the holes for the toothpicks. But the margin for error was, well, pretty much inexistent. So I can see the toothpicks after sanding. I will use some stain, and it'll still be visible, but hey it's a repaired part, I don't think it'll be ashamed to show it's real identity.

Next step, final fitting on the rifle, staining, oiling and final pics!

Lou
 
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