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The T 35 hand guard is a pretty fragile affair, very thin at the rear where it fits to the clip ring on the bbl, with thin sides along either side of the rear sight.
Edokko was good enough to send me good pictures of his really nice rifles hand guard.
Using these pictures and the rifle itself for fitting, I fabricated this replacement.
It only took four months and maybe 50 hours; so if a hand guard, were one able to find one, was worth $300, I made $0.60 an hour!
If I had it do do again or if I HAD to do it again, I'd start with a single piece of wood, now that I have a full size "pattern".
This is not an offer or a solicitation to make another T 35 or any other hand guard, it is way too much work- I just wanted to see if I could do it.
Here is the end result, and some of the steps along the way, with Edokko's pictures for comparison.
The first picture is the finished hand guard on the refit stock, the second shows the small piece of the original handguard that was included with the metal parts of the T 35, no stock at all.
You can follow the how it was done pictures, first the rear section was fit, then the sides along the sight base added, then the front part of the handguard shaped and attached to the rear part, then the whole think shaped and the inlets for the rear sight cut.
Thanks for looking.
Edokko was good enough to send me good pictures of his really nice rifles hand guard.
Using these pictures and the rifle itself for fitting, I fabricated this replacement.
It only took four months and maybe 50 hours; so if a hand guard, were one able to find one, was worth $300, I made $0.60 an hour!
If I had it do do again or if I HAD to do it again, I'd start with a single piece of wood, now that I have a full size "pattern".
This is not an offer or a solicitation to make another T 35 or any other hand guard, it is way too much work- I just wanted to see if I could do it.
Here is the end result, and some of the steps along the way, with Edokko's pictures for comparison.
The first picture is the finished hand guard on the refit stock, the second shows the small piece of the original handguard that was included with the metal parts of the T 35, no stock at all.
You can follow the how it was done pictures, first the rear section was fit, then the sides along the sight base added, then the front part of the handguard shaped and attached to the rear part, then the whole think shaped and the inlets for the rear sight cut.
Thanks for looking.
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