Fitting wood on a SMLE

[bobfortier]

Hi all

A couple of months ago I made a full wood set for my 1942 No 1 Mk III*

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=388246

Turns out that the barrel and chamber are probably shot. So I was talking with my uncle the other day and he ended up giving me a No 1 Mk III* from 1918. So I decided to fit the 1918 action into my homemade wood set. Here are some pics.

First, The rear was loose, so I glued up some wood pieces big enough to allow some trimming

Next I measured the distance on the action (1 3/8 IIRC)

Then I marked the wood

Next I removed a bit of wood, and I tried the action. You can see the mark that it left

More pics when I continue on this small project...

 

[bobfortier]

I sanded a bit the barrel channel, and I removed wood from a couple of places

I re-applied some linseed oil on the stock, I think it will stay shiny like this

And I re-blued the metal, re-assembly tommorow

 

[rgg_7]

Nice job. Did you cold blue? or use something else?

 

[bobfortier]

cold blue

 

[Dosing]

Primary contact points are shown in this pic.

 

[louthepou]

Great find Dosing. That's specific to the No5 Lee Enfield, but still, I saved that pic on my C drive!

Lou

 

[bobfortier]

I agree ! Thanks for this.

 

[bobfortier]

Done !

 

[Kernalvax]

ya got your ears on backwards

 

[OEM]

Nice work. When you reblued it, did you do it all the way to the receiver or only the barrel?

 

[bobfortier]

I reblued all of it.

And then I told myself, since the result was so nice, why not do the other Lee Enfield ?

 

[FishDoc]

Ooooh... someone got the bug bad too...LOL! Then you end up with a stack of enfields and .303 surplus... and bits all over the place. But that;s just me.... I;d hate to see what the gun rooms of the "Professionals" on here look like! Well done indeed!