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**socialdespatch** · 19-01-2012, 21:48

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

I used to have a tidy little Mod 2. I used it to kill things - I can't say I was that bothered about dings in the stock. Perhaps its my old rifle you've got?

Did you paint the action with thick black paint too?

**Bubbles_Barker** · 19-01-2012, 21:59

Originally Posted by socialdespatch

Did you paint the action with thick black paint too?

Errrr no. deffo not mine!

**LISpace** · 19-01-2012, 22:18

I also have a mod 2, cracking little rifle. The stock's in good nick and I'll not be touching it. I've done a bit of re-finishing in the past and found that I started behaving like a homo trying to protect the finish I had lovingly achieved, rather than treating the weapon as I should, ie as a precision tool to be used for a purpose.

**Cyclic** · 19-01-2012, 22:20

Master Stocker Guns 4 U

**socialdespatch** · 19-01-2012, 22:33

Originally Posted by Cyclic

Master Stocker Guns 4 U

That's not a link to Don Robinson is it? I don't want a rabbit with antlers carving on it.

**Cyclic** · 19-01-2012, 22:36

Originally Posted by socialdespatch

That's not a link to Don Robinson is it? I don't want a rabbit with antlers carving on it.

To be honest Ive never used him but his work appears pretty top notch to me?

**socialdespatch** · 19-01-2012, 22:39

Originally Posted by Bubbles_Barker

Errrr no. deffo not mine!

Rough as a badgers arrse would be a good description for the starting point on this one. Under the paint is just old patinated bluing, no rust or anything horrible, not often I have to use nitromors on the metalwork of a rifle. If it hadn't been virtually free I'd have walked away.

**socialdespatch** · 19-01-2012, 22:41

Originally Posted by Cyclic

To be honest Ive never used him but his work appears pretty top notch to me?

When he restrains himself his work is fine, when he gets adventurous the results can be gopping.

**ugly** · 20-01-2012, 16:57

I have seen what patience and a good deal of care can do to restore a rifle. A mate at Wednesbury had a BSA and Co Snider carbine he bought at a steal and it had sat at the bottom of a pile in Ma Parkers for so long it wasnt recognisable. lots of TLC later and it looked its age but it also looked like it hadnt been fired. In fact there was a tide mark around the stock and down the barrel where it had been submerged at some point.
lots of time steaming dents produced what looked like a rifle stored since 1860 and not a Ma Parker cellar special.

**socialdespatch** · 08-02-2012, 14:04

The stock has come up well with a few layers of tru-oil and is now good to go.

The metalwork has taken some work but is now close to a mirror finish, there are a few dinks that would look odd if they were polished out completely. Next step is to have a go at doing a fume blue once I've made a rifle boiling pan.