Question for people that restore milsurp: where to buy a new (blank) disks?

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Hi everyone,
I figured this is the best place to ask! I'm making a home-made stock for an old cooey and I want to find a blank stainless steel disk (I figured wherever they sold brass disks, they'd probably have stainless as well) and have it engraved with our family name and the year in which the stock was made. I guess I'm kind of hoping this rifle will stay with the family for a while ;-)

I figured people that restore milsurps might have an idea of where to find such a thing?

Cheers,

David
 
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Around here, if we need things like that, we go the guy downtown who makes up trophies for hockey games and suchlike.

The people he wholesales from have a monster catalogue with hundreds of pages of junque, including various escutcheons and stick-ons in various shapes and sizes. You could inlet one of these and then engrave it. Other option is to go to a place such as Dixie Gun Works and check what's in their catalog; their ship-to-Canada policy is fiscally painful these days.

Try the local trophy shop first; more than likely that they can help you, on the cheap, too.

Good luck in your quest.
 
You could also hit up a Pet Store and get a fancy-looking dogtag engraved there. A bit of work with a pair of snips and file will take off the little ring, and you'll have your disk.
 
Originals were never engraved - they were stamped with metal stamps. You can buy cheap steel stamps online from e-bay or at any Princess Auto.

The discs are a snap to make if you have some brass bar stock and a lathe ;)
 
smellie said:
Around here, if we need things like that, we go the guy downtown who makes up trophies for hockey games and suchlike.

The people he wholesales from have a monster catalogue with hundreds of pages of junque, including various escutcheons and stick-ons in various shapes and sizes. You could inlet one of these and then engrave it. Other option is to go to a place such as Dixie Gun Works and check what's in their catalog; their ship-to-Canada policy is fiscally painful these days.

Try the local trophy shop first; more than likely that they can help you, on the cheap, too.

Good luck in your quest.
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Looks like a cheap and decent idea! I'll try this first and see how it turns out!

Cheers

Fish
 
The sheet metal guards on old 3.5" floppy disks appear to be stainless steel and are soft enough that they can be cut with scissors.
A cookie-cutter punch could be made by sharpening a scrap cut-off of iron pipe.
 
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