Lee Enfield furniture
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If in mint condition and the wood only it is still a bit high. Now, 4 years into the future it will be low.
I have an LB with unissued furniture with all the parts unissued so it really does dress up the rifle.
He who hesitates, cries later.
$200 for a set of clean, unissued walnut furniture is a good, fair price. Try to find a new stock that doesn't require finishing and fitting anywhere else for less.
These stocks are no longer being mass produced. There are places in Europe that are making them up a few at a time on pantographs. Try 3 times that price to get a set deliverd to your house.
Look at it this way, the odd time some fellow gets a good deal on an unissued set. Then he figures that is a normal price. That's like the old guy at the yard sale with a still in grease milsurp that he bought 40 years ago for $25 and is surprised when you snap it up for $150, without even dickering.
You snooze, or procrastinate and you lose almost every time.
An issued set sells for substantially less, depending on condition. For a new stock, that is a good price and the seller had no problem getting it.
$200 for a set of clean, unissued walnut furniture is a good, fair price. Try to find a new stock that doesn't require finishing and fitting anywhere else for less.
These stocks are no longer being mass produced. There are places in Europe that are making them up a few at a time on pantographs. Try 3 times that price to get a set deliverd to your house.
Look at it this way, the odd time some fellow gets a good deal on an unissued set. Then he figures that is a normal price. That's like the old guy at the yard sale with a still in grease milsurp that he bought 40 years ago for $25 and is surprised when you snap it up for $150, without even dickering.
You snooze, or procrastinate and you lose almost every time.
An issued set sells for substantially less, depending on condition. For a new stock, that is a good price and the seller had no problem getting it.
Actually I was not looking for an Enfield stock.
I have to admit, that I am playing with the idea of restoring one of those sporterized No 4s one day.
But when I do the math, it doesn't make too much sense:
$200.00 plus for a sporterized rifle,
$200.00 for the stock set,
plus who knows how much for some missing parts.
And at the end you will have a mixmaster at best.
In my milsurp collection there is only one Enfield, and it seems that will stay so for now.
Here it is:
I have to admit, that I am playing with the idea of restoring one of those sporterized No 4s one day.
But when I do the math, it doesn't make too much sense:
$200.00 plus for a sporterized rifle,
$200.00 for the stock set,
plus who knows how much for some missing parts.
And at the end you will have a mixmaster at best.
In my milsurp collection there is only one Enfield, and it seems that will stay so for now.
Here it is:
$200 sounds fair. I paid $130 GB pounds delivery in. Now to get all the fiddly bits. It may be a while but as posted above they are getting scarce. I bought the whole set so the wood will match. A sportsterized no4 $150 -175... with nice full furniture $500
If you've ever seen one of the Numrich stock sets, you will see why they are $100 plus shipping and taxes. They are stained with who only knows what and I don't mean as a finish. The dirt runs deep. Some of the sets I saw, were uninstalled. All were dirty. As far as mismatched colors go, even some of the new rifles from WWII went out with pinto effects. If you decide to buy a Numrich set, be prepared to do a lot of very dark staining.
As far as being put together rifles go, anything with an FTR marking is a put together. They were designed that way on purpose. As many interchangeable parts as possible.
Check out some of Peter Laidler's comments. He was in charge of FTRing thousands of all types of Lee Enfields and has written manuals on how to do it properly.
It was common to mix parts from different nations and manufacturers in refurbishing the rifles. If the only parts on hand were from North American makers, to rebuild UK makers rifles, that's what the REMEs used. They may not have all matched in color but they did the job very well.
WHAT exactly did you write there? Not sure I understand it.
Hell, I could buy it here in UK and DELIVER to you for that.
Well, almost.
tac
True on the stock sets from Numrich. I have never bought a complete set off of them but many seperate parts. It is a mixed bag. A couple of as new forestocks were in very good condition but as you said, very stained so yes, they will need attention.
Any time you get parts from any of these sources you take a gamble. Numrich has sent me badly rusted and bent parts, Marstar has sent the wrong parts, Ellwood Epps has sent stripped screws that I have had to chuck. When I asked Marstar for specific front sight sizes I got none of the sizes I asked for. Over all though, it is part of the game. I have had very good luck (knock on wood) with Ebay. The prices may be a bit higher but so far every part I have bought has been at least as good as advertised.
http://www.gunboards.com/sites/reichoutfitters/index.html Reich traders in the US is a very good source for #4 wood. His prices are very good and the quality is also quite decent. He is sometimes a bit slow to respond as this is a part time hobby for him but he has always come through.
Ok, so I'm very new to the whole enfield game .... thanks to louthepou and the jungle. In my short time "browsing" enfields and replacement parts it is quite evident that wood and good wood at that, is getting hard and getting harder to come by. This brings me to the question is there no one out there that will produce new wood parts for these rifles? Seems like there would be a market for reproduction wood. Considering the ability of CNC equipment you would think that truthful reproductions could be easily duplicated. I realize that as personal choice there might be some that would only use original wood parts but having an alternative would be nice. Personally I would never get rid of any wood as it to me is a big part of the history of the rifle. Just my thoughts.
And my thoughts as well, and a whole bunch of other folks too. Eventually, I gave up on a forend appearing on the EE (although it does happen) and ordered one from Numrich. The shipping cost was almost as much as the art, but I ended up with unissued walnut that has an Enfield marking and will indeed need some fitting to make it work. I
Try a forum search- there have been earlier threads, one mentioning a guy in Alberta who apparently makes them.
rob bishop
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He ship's to Canada no problem?
Never a problem. Again, he is sometimes slow. I think he travels for his regular job but he has always come through for me. I need to make another order soon.
