Where to find a Lee Enfield Cheek Piece in Canada?
- Thread starter Slowbalt
- Start date
If you're looking for a real one????????????
If you're handy and a good replica will do, I've done this in the past.
Take a bubbaed butt stock, which can usually be had for the asking at a local gun shop or $5 at most and cut the top off, Scrape/sand off everything that doesn't look like a cheek piece. Drill some appropriate holes and finish with BLO. The first one you do will take a couple of hours. After that maybe an hour. Just be careful and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
No, I don't do them for anyone else.
Give it a go. If you're like most of us presently, you have lots of time on your hands.
If you're handy and a good replica will do, I've done this in the past.
Take a bubbaed butt stock, which can usually be had for the asking at a local gun shop or $5 at most and cut the top off, Scrape/sand off everything that doesn't look like a cheek piece. Drill some appropriate holes and finish with BLO. The first one you do will take a couple of hours. After that maybe an hour. Just be careful and they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing.
No, I don't do them for anyone else.
Give it a go. If you're like most of us presently, you have lots of time on your hands.
- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
+1 to what bearhunter said, I’ve got a cut off piece of a no.1 buttstock on the bench that will be a no.4 cheek riser if I ever finish it lol.
At gunshows, when they start up again. Maybe at your local gunshop??
You can't always get it all right, just because you want it.
When the US borders open again, the screws you're looking for will be available but the cost of only a few ill be outrageous.
If you're at all mechanically inclined, you will be able to make do one way or another. In the past, I have taken screws and chucked them up in drills and ground the heads on a piece of 100 grit strip cloth to achieve the desired shape, then blued them for color. They're pretty obviously not real. Somehow I doubt your No4 T isn't real either??
IMHO, a couple of dollars for a half dozen wood screws isn't unreasonable.
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
Go to your local antique furniture places that do restorations. They will have jars of them. Know the sizes that you want...they are listed in the parts manual.
- Location
- Richmond, BC, CANADA
Screw, wood, 1-1/4"x No. 8 G1/GA 1330 (front) [Can ignore G1/GA 1330 as it is a military part number]
Screw, wood, 1-1/2" x No. 8 G1/GA 8138 (rear) [Can ignore G1/GA 8138 as it is a military part number]
"Steel or brass were perfectly acceptable alternatives."
(An Armourer's Perspective by Peter Laidler with Ian Skennerton p. 14)
Screw, wood, 1-1/2" x No. 8 G1/GA 8138 (rear) [Can ignore G1/GA 8138 as it is a military part number]
"Steel or brass were perfectly acceptable alternatives."
(An Armourer's Perspective by Peter Laidler with Ian Skennerton p. 14)
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
I do restorations of a lot of older equipment, and my go to guys for slot drive screws and non-plated fasteners is Blacksmith Bolt and Rivet Supply in the US. They have the screws you are after for 9¢ each. But the postage from the US will negate the savings you would be having. They have a few simple rules when it comes to fasters: no hex, phillips or zinc. A lot of their fasteners come blackened. I highly recommend them for restoration projects.
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
Bassano Bob....there is a name I have not heard in a while.
Hank H in Calgary makes very nice reproductions. I have used them on some of my restorations.
Hank H in Calgary makes very nice reproductions. I have used them on some of my restorations.
Would you happen to have contact info for either gent
I tried making one but my ambition outweighs my talent in this area
Please and thank you
stencollector
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
Shoot me your name and email by a private message and I'll forward it to Hank.
