I've posted several time about mine, well... here they are, in all their unfinished glory:
From the top to bottom:
An unused commemorative receiver. It required a little welding to fix a small flaw in the area of the hammer. Still fitting a new breech bolt to it, taking the weld down slowly so as to not go too far! Been watching the various sites to find a new coil spring and strut. Needs a couple of new screws and pins still available from Browning, but... in no rush. I'm thinking of building this as a TD, pistol grip, rifle, two barrels (I'm leaning towards a .32-40 & .38-55), both full mag. Colt1849, I haven't forgot, just waiting for the finances and wood so it can be fitted before sending the receiver out to be modified and finished.
A 1973 receiver that's the pits, literally. It will probably require some professional help. As I haven't been able to remove several buggered screws from it. Currently haven't fitted a link to it, as I'm waiting to see how the metal cleans up. Might be a $40 learning tool... in other words, scrap!
Another new, unused commemorative receiver, will become my son's rifle with pistol gripped stock and the 26" ½ octagon/½ round barrel to its left, half mag; awaits the wood I've had on order forever, then its out to be CCH'd and have it's screws fire-blued. Possibly engraved as the CFO allows! Don't even ask how much these receivers were!
A plain 1976 receiver complete sans everything in front and behind!
A new, unused 1963 production frame. Have yet to locate the pre-64 style cartridge guides and screws.
A 1972 Winchester 94 carbine. Still needs a couple of small internal parts and the magazine plug, follower and spring. Almost ready to be stripped and sent out for refinishing.
The two barrels to the left of the receivers are a 94 Centennial slated for the son's rifle and a std. 20" carbine barrel, this is the one I'll probably cut for the Trapper. To the left of those are a full length rifle and a half mag (which will be on the son's rifle).
That leaves 3, (4 if I decide on making the TD w/2 bbls), needed and a like number of mag tubes. I'm thinking of making the '63 into another trapper, but I think I'll take a hint and make it 16-¼" to allow 6 cartridges in the tube. I haven't decided which of the last two will be a rifle and which will be a carbine, as I have a buttplate for each.
Each is having a photo record made of its build. But... it's a slow process to both find the correct, useable parts and to fit them into a gun that was either torn down, or has never been fitted before.
Given the variety of parts Winchester used in the originals, it's quite difficult to either bid blind or buy blind from folks that often are unaware of the various differences. I.e.: I bought two lifters from a guy that swore they were cast post-64 parts, yet they were the stamped parts when I opened the envelope. Blued steel carbine buttplates turned out to be raw, unfinished parts; which is better as it's much easier to fit the buttplate to the wood rather than vice versa.
Sights are a whole other ball of wax, or should I say, NIGHTMARE! Seems most on E-Bay are collector pieces by the prices they bring. So other than a couple of tang sights and plain post front sights, those are up in the air. But, I do believe at least one of these will find its way here.
So, what do you have in progress?
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