I'm new to the forum, but thought I would share a few pictures of a recent project of mine.
As a background, I am in New Zealand, and this rifle appeared on a web auction site here (similar to EBay) but it's legal to, and accepted to trade firearms of the correct category.
Don't want to go into an explanation of the whole gun law system here, but in this example the guy who was selling it on the auction site, had no idea what he was supposed to do.
I did manage to warn him of the possible problems he would face, due to the fact that it was illegal for him to have it, appears he took it out of a rubbish skip at his work, after it was thrown away by his boss????? but he wouldn't listen!
Anyway, long story cut short, I won the auction, I only bid on it because I couldn't bear to see it destroyed ( as I knew would happen if I didn't).
And sure enough, the seller was contacted by the law, soon after the auction closed, advising it had to be handed in to be destroyed if he wasn't selling to an approved buyer!
Luckily I am an approved buyer, so this is what I received.
As you can see, it had been very neglected.
Unfortunately I didn't really get any decent shots of how bad the woodwork was.
I have to take some pictures of where I am up to with the restoration, so I will post those over the next couple of days.
I have all but finished, I have re-blued all the steel work (barrel, lock, hammer etc), and polished all the brass.
Steamed the wood, and linseed oiled it.
Just got a dummy ramrod to build and it's finished.
It has had a couple of rounds through it, but more testing is needed on the sighting.
Updated pictures to come.
As a background, I am in New Zealand, and this rifle appeared on a web auction site here (similar to EBay) but it's legal to, and accepted to trade firearms of the correct category.
Don't want to go into an explanation of the whole gun law system here, but in this example the guy who was selling it on the auction site, had no idea what he was supposed to do.
I did manage to warn him of the possible problems he would face, due to the fact that it was illegal for him to have it, appears he took it out of a rubbish skip at his work, after it was thrown away by his boss????? but he wouldn't listen!
Anyway, long story cut short, I won the auction, I only bid on it because I couldn't bear to see it destroyed ( as I knew would happen if I didn't).
And sure enough, the seller was contacted by the law, soon after the auction closed, advising it had to be handed in to be destroyed if he wasn't selling to an approved buyer!
Luckily I am an approved buyer, so this is what I received.
As you can see, it had been very neglected.
Unfortunately I didn't really get any decent shots of how bad the woodwork was.
I have to take some pictures of where I am up to with the restoration, so I will post those over the next couple of days.
I have all but finished, I have re-blued all the steel work (barrel, lock, hammer etc), and polished all the brass.
Steamed the wood, and linseed oiled it.
Just got a dummy ramrod to build and it's finished.
It has had a couple of rounds through it, but more testing is needed on the sighting.
Updated pictures to come.