Next one will be blonde...NOW FINISHED !!!

[bobfortier]

Hi all

I recently acquired this Lee Enfield. You know how it goes, went in the hunting store to ask something about the next deer season, saw a sign saying "Lee Enfield, 100$", and next thing I know, I have a new toy. Got it with a box of ammo, so it is a good score.

I dismantle it tonight, and all I can say is "SCORE !!!!" The bore is mirror, 2 grooves with strong sharp edges, the bolt is not matching, but it's no problem. Only the forearm met the hands of Bubba. The action was loose in the wood, the front sight is way to the left, maybe that explains why there is one bullet missing from the box. Poor guy probably took a shot, did not see where it went, and decided to sell it.

Anyway, I decided to do my deer rifle out of this one. I ordered the scope mount from Gairlochian, I already got the scope.

So I'll have to build a stock for this one also. i decided to make a blonde this time. I have a piece of beech that awaits me at work, and my tools are sharp !

I want to make it look like the last one on this pic.

To be continued....


oh, anyone with a spare front band, and the 2 pieces of metal under it ?

 

[louthepou]

Go Bob Go! Go Bob Go!

 

[scruffee]

holy crap!!! neat find... i've been looking for a cheap enfield for a winter project but prices here are a bit too high for me... all i can find here are old beat up sporters for 140$...

 

[woodchopper]

nice, 100$ and you still have the rear handbun band, bubba normally tosses that one too. And the barrel is not chopped, that was a great score.

I like blonds too

DCRA in 308

And a savage No4MkI/3

even did my tanker up as a blond a short blond

 

[woodchopper]

the short blond

oh and you may notice the lower photo in my last post,the savage, the butt is a bubba. I changed that out for a matching one but never updated the photo.

 

[bobfortier]

Hi

Here is a pics of the riffling, and a pic of the naked action. This will end up good I'm sure....

 

[woodchopper]

that looks good

 

[LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1]

I am planning to do a stock for a No.4 as well. I just picked up a nice piece of maple, but I am afraid to touch it and screw it up lol.

 

[bobfortier]

Good luck with maple. It is hard and britle, so if you plan to use hand tools you might have problems. When I did my Tommy gun receiver I found it hard to work with.

 

[goldidig]

Nice, very clean Long Branch to desporterize Bob. I have a 43 like that unfired and they are nicely made guns! Looking forward to seeing it back in full wood form! Here's a blond I picked up locally 2 weeks ago. Savage No4 mk1/3. Looks unfired( I was told it is unfired) and still loaded with cosmoline inside the action and around the front sight etc.. Looks like it had the exterior cleaned off and was stuck in a gun cabinet.
Al

 

[Ganderite]

I thought all the Savage guns had a grooved top handguard?

 

[goldidig]

My No4 mk1/3 was reworked from an original Savage no4mk1 by Fazakerly in 1953. It got all new beech furniture at that time, like most other converted ones did.
Al

 

[bobfortier]

It has begun....

Hi all

I started on the wood for my No 4. I started with the buttstock for this one. First I cut it on the band saw, then I tried to make the holes. First mistake. After a couple of trips to Canadian Tire to get spade bits and such stuff, I discovered that the bit follow the grain, and here is the result. The upper left holes is where it came out, and the smaller one is where it was suppose to be.

So I chose to cheat a bit. I took another piece, and I made a groove with the table saw.

Then I cutted in half

Next I marked the depth of the bigger hole with the screw

 

[bobfortier]

Then with the table saw I did the bigger hole. I had to stop at the right place. Next with a wood chisel I did the shoulder of the hole.

And I glued the two pieces back together. The color of the grain is such that it will not show that much, and I now have a perfect hole. Square, but hey, no one except you and me will know

And here is the glued block for the forearm.

And, just for fun, here is a chest I'm building for my wife, all solid pine left over from where I work. need a couple of moldings, and then finish

 

[cyclone]

bobfortier, you're an inspiration - now I wish I had taken "shop-class".....

 

[bobfortier]

Buttstock

Hi

Tonight I worked on the buttstock. I market the tenon (part that goes inside receiver). I cutted the shoulder with a hand saw, removed the excess, and then I started to adjust the tenon

The trick is to insert the receiver on the tenon, and remove the marks left by the metal, either by chisel or rasp

And when you are done, screw on the buttstock to have a nicer looking Lee Enfield (ok, not nice enough, but that will come...)

 

[Riflechair]

Blondes?
I LOVE REDHEADS!

 

[bobfortier]

Fitting the buttplate

Hi all

I'm going to go more into details, as a member here wants to do the same, so I'll try to show more of the process, and the tool I use

To fit the buttplate, I started with a 7/8 fostner bit, and I did a half-hole on the top

Then I put some anti seize on the buttplate, and I applied on the wood. By removing with chisel or sander all of the gray left by the anti-seize, you will get slowly to a point where the buttplate fits on the wood. The holes for the screws are a bit less than 1/4 for the first hole, and 9/32 for about 1/2 inch depth.

Here is the fostner bit kit I use for most of my work, available at a Canadian Tire near you !

I will round the buttstock later

 

[rtracer13]

Beautiful. Even if you were to sell it, which I'd recommend not doing. the Mag and the ammo would pay out for the better half of that $100.
Great deal!

The redhead stock is my favorite too... mmmmm...

 

[bobfortier]

The stock

Ok, let's continue. The secret is in the marking. There is a saying in woodworking that goes "Measure twice, cut once". First you have to determine a point from which all the marking will be done. The only point that goes on both side of the stock is the hole for the kingscrew. I marked it, and also the shoulder where the barrel goes into the action.

But first, dimension the stock square

There you go, a square block, with a straight line going from front to back (in my case, the glue-line)

Here are the marking tools, and some of the tracing. use the old bubbaed stock as reference.

To find the depth of the machining, lay the bubbaed stock flat, and take the measure from a couple of point. Here I'm reading 3/4 inch deep for the main machining, and the hole for the screw protude about 5/16, with a dia. of 1/2 inch.