I never understood how these were stamped onto a steel (hardened) item. Does it work on curved surfaces? Are they held in a jig when used? Just use the stamp and hit it with a hammer? Was there a person who did this stamping all day long? So many questions.....
Fake stamp punches on eBay (milsurp fraud alert!)
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German captures were stamped with a hakkencreuz stamp, but it was on the wood wrist of rifles, and only rifles that needed depot level repairs.
It takes practise. I've stamped a lot of metal, mostly rifle calibers onto new sorting barrels and the like. There's a technique to doing it properly.
Some things, like German bolt roots, won't stamp without annealing. They'll just blunt the stamp. When serializing a German a new bolt in a sporting rifle, if it's a military bolt, welding or forging the handle usually softens the root enough if allowed to air cool. If you just polish off the original serial number and try to stamp a nazi military bolt, forget it. Will ruin your stamp.
With the fake stamps, you woukd have to know which parts are soft enough to realistically take the stamp, particularly if curved. All I'm gonna say lest I encourage any bad behaviour.
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But the rifle was originally all matching, so by stamping the same serial number on all the parts I am restoring it to how it is supposed to be...
Very slippery slope which the best answer is always just leave it alone. Don't mess with anything on milsurps unless it is a legitimate repair (broken parts, removing corrosion, etc.) and you will be fine.
Not really the same. A new part is a new part, but if you stamp over a punch with the exact same replica punch it seems more like restoring to me.
