- disassembled
- cleaned, inspected
- rejointed action:
removed hingepin locks
removed hingepin
reamed hingepin hole and barrel hook
fabricated, fit, installed new hingepin and locks
drilled cocking lever tunnels
blacked barrels down on face
- engraved hingepin ends
- removed improperly repaired tang
- rebuilt tang:
welded new material in place
machined outside contours
machined safety slot
drilled and tapped hand pin hole
- engraved tang
- fabricated and fit:
safety slide retaining pin
safety detent pin
- fabricated, fit, indexed, engraved:
breech screw
triggerplate screw
hand screw
left and right forward lockplate screws
rear lockplate screw
toplever spindle screw
triggerguard screw
- filed, polished, prepped:
frame
triggerplate
forend iron
triggerguard
- recut engraving on above parts
- fabricated, fit, heat-treated:
left and right firing pins
- removed broken and stuck extractor guide pin from barrels
- machined extractor segment for replacement guide pin
- stripped and relaid ribs
- recut engraving on barrel breeches
- polished, prepped barrels for rust bluing
- rust blued barrels
- detail polished barrels
- color case hardened:
frame
lockplates
triggerplate
forend iron
associated screws
- nitre blued:
triggerguard
guard screw
trigger
bbl. selector
forend latch
forend latch escutcheon and screw
safety slide
- chemically removed finish and oil from buttstock and forend
- repaired structural damage at head of stock
- repaired cracked and stripped screwholes in forend wood
- installed reproduction No-Shoc recoil pad
- refinished buttstock and forend
- recut checkering on buttstock and forend
- repaired damaged left sear tail
- corrected sear engagement (left and right)
- corrected sear tail heights
- reassembled, lubed
- function checked
- test fired
Now, on to the photos.
Here are some photos of the finished job. All finishes are done in-house, both wood and metal (yes, that includes the case hardening). The barrels are rust blued. The trigger, triggerguard, barrel selector, safety slide, forend latch and escutcheon are nitre blued. The balance is color case-hardened.
Did you perform the case-hardening yourself or did you send it out?
ReplyDeleteEVERYTHING, just as stated in the text, was done in house. That includes the case hardening.
ReplyDeleteOne lucky gun.
ReplyDeleteYou may not have enjoyed it, but the results are stunningly beautiful!
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