Last ones, I promise!
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- Thread starter geezer
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Remember this one?
Yes sir. You finished that one out perfectly….absolute compliment to the burn!
A made sometime between 1933 and 1943 Stevens model 54, 410. With Numrich and Ebay selling me the wrong parts, a near scam on Armslist and near a year and a half of searching every gun parts website and backwoods gunsmiths I finally got it going. It was in really bad shape.
Next. A Marlin Glenfield model 15 22. Made in 1979. Also was in bad shape.
Next, A Winchester model 67A Made in ?? sometime before 1968. My first fixer upper.
Next. A Marlin Glenfield model 15 22. Made in 1979. Also was in bad shape.
Next, A Winchester model 67A Made in ?? sometime before 1968. My first fixer upper.
This shotgun of the guns I actually did before and after. The others I forgot to do before but at least you see the after which was a vast improvement mind you. I wouldn't have done them if they weren't worn to hell. The last pic is shotgun before and the first and second pic are finished parts and stock which yielded a beautiful tiger striping.
This is a newer rough case piece that cleaned up nicely. Most of the moving small parts were replaced with Wilson Combat parts and a Mag well. Zoom in on the rear frame, thumb safety, palm safety all these parts were just rough cast and looked horrible. It really came to life with some light grit wet/dry sand paper, polish and demel and a bit load of elbow grease. I have done a lot more but just didn't take pics.
Here is the old Llama….It’s been through hell. Previous owner stripped it to raw steel, and polished it. Someone also cut the front sight down to a nub. I have added parts, and modifications through the years. I did the bobtail, I fit the grip safety, thumb safety, trigger, and threaded barrel. The gun runs good, but had the sight issue….I found this red dot plate on Amazon, and it looked like an answer to the problem. I filed the raised rib down to fit the plate, and am satisfied with the outcome. It had a really nice set of plastic grips that were of no use to me after I bobtailed it, so I traded them for a beat up set of wood grips, then dolled them up…the gun is getting ceracoted black right now, and should be back together soon…
That's nice
Hey geezer! You may already know this but in case you don't here it is. You can remove all those surface blemishes with some 2000 grit wet/dry sand paper. Once all the scratches are gone just take the frame and slide and take it across the sand paper in one single direction. That will give it a matt finish. If you want a highly polished look use Mother's polish and a Dremel with a polishing bit like the ones I sent you a link to. If the scratches are a little deeper you can start with 1500 or 1000 it's just going to take you a little longer to work your way up to 2000. As long as you got the mother's polish and the polishing bits for a Dremel you really can't mess it up. Just don't press down real hard with the sandpaper and let it do the work. Once the sandpaper feels slick switch it over untill you feel the resistance. The gun I posted had a matte finish and I did the same exact thing to it. It'll look like a new gun when you're finished. Tape up in the areas that you don't want polish to get into or you don't want sanded. Other than that it's pretty straightforward.
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I love the grips here. I hear it's quite dangerous to pull off.
