P Webley and son. Rustoration

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Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

That is just beeeeeeutiful. (New word, minted just for the occasion)

Do you want the red dot mount back? A little machining on the barrel and you'd be in business......

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After the red dot, a suppressor and a pic rail under the foreend for the bipod. Tacticool haha

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Originally Posted by No.3

After the red dot, a suppressor and a pic rail under the foreend for the bipod. Tacticool haha

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now Im puking and got gut cramps at same time.....Philistine

You forgot the stock pack and range finding scope

Someone can photo shop all that shit on

And a thermal scope

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Originally Posted by akaroa1

It's best feature is a little harder to get an image of with my steam powered mobile phone

But when you look down the big hole in a 500 BPE and see this, you just buy it

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Both my 500 3" have 9/10 bores
They maybe didn't get shot as often and certainly not in the last 100 years

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The reason for the 9/10 bore is clearly the gun outlived the owner's shoulder. Nice toy.

Very nice , would of been good to see the before you cleaned it up pick as it looks very good now, oozes class , nice bit of tiger stripe showing in that butt

Excellent gun and superb work from you, nicely not over done...

Auction catalogue image
Dark dirty wood
Heavy rust patches on about 10 locations and light rust on the corners of most barrel flats
Some of the rust had the clear patterns of fabric
So it has been in a canvas case at some stage for a long time

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But the underlying quality was there and the bore was a huge bonus.

I have cleaned worse than this stock, but this is easily the best walnut that's been hiding on one of my projects

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Originally Posted by Fssprecision

Excellent gun and superb work from you, nicely not over done...

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Hence the word " rustoration " do the very least.
Battle scars are part of its history and all part of its story.

I love my slings on the barrel, but the sling point on the stock of this rifle intrigues me. I have seen cullers rifles slung from this point off a tight cord wrap.
Any chance you could put a sling on it and give an opinion on how it hangs and hugs the shoulder ? I am wondering if we could all learn something (once again) from the past

Bakails have one there too bud lol.

Diamond in the rough for sure looking at the Auction pic , heck if cleaned up nice

I have completely roughed out an inner case to go inside the leather case.
4mm ply base
6mm timber front and back
12mm sides

Parts are mounted in blocks to save space with the parts being a very tight fit.

This case inside a case will give me something to stabilise the original leather case corners to.

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And I salvaged a perfect dark brown leather handle from an old wooden case that will be perfect on the Webley case.

Just need to get an old worn dark brown belt from a junk or opp shop to use for the 4 strap keepers and 2 handle attachments

maybe could try an old horse cover or similar stuff for leather straps. recycling center up here had quite a few bridels and halters etc all old leather ones...

Run out of jobs until I go to town and find an old dark brown belt or some horse tack

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