Thread: Restoration - 70's Laurona Eibar (picture moderately heavy)

It was about 6 months ago that @Happy called me into his workshop and said I have a few rifles recently given to me and wondered if you'd be keen to take a look.

Having had a real burning desire to add a U/O Trap or Skeet gun to my collection I settled on the 1970's Laurona Eibar that kept looking back at me... and the deal was done.

Now I'm really sorry guys, because I sent it away to a mate of mines dad to have the wood reworked back form bare wood before I could take some photo's so I'll have to explain what she looked like. She had certainly seen action with water staining and some pretty hefty gouges out of the stock and and even though on the outside she looked a bit tatty she had accounted for some stellar days duck shooting in the past I was told.

Cool a project to work on over the next few months and the great thing was on checking the age of the gun It was pretty much as old as me - NICE!!!

The metal work was intact however was suffering a bit from Former Storage neglect and there was a bit of surface rust to contend with mainly on the barrels and a couple of broken springs inside that would need a smithy better than me to resurrect...

Any how while the wood was away I sent the barrels and metal work as they were leaded together to @Doubleshot at Cerakote NZ in Tauranga.who did a great job of disasembly and validating what could be done and in what colour would suit. Following media blast on the barrels we decided to go for SoCom Blue from the palate as being as close to a match for older Blue-ing.Nice job Craig and I love how he rings you to run through what he's found so you can come up with a plan of attack. We decided on a minimalist approach to match the barrels and existing metal work filligree - you might be able to pick up is almost everywhere on these Spanish guns. So we removed the rust and went for a more Patina approach on the remaining seen metalwork. Everything else got the love of the media blast and cerakoted pin heads and crews... apart from the one that broke on dissasembly... hahaha.

Any how once done got all the bits together and worked with the gunsmith at Reloaders here in auckland to source springs and screws and re-assembly of the more difficult parts.

Last weekend I went to Happy's for a pond day on our Maimai and we were able to show the original owner before me what we'd done - He was pretty impressed, so I hope the pictures do this justice!!

Warm Barrels Guys.. CD