{"id":5628,"date":"2013-02-04T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2013-02-04T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T11:50:00","slug":"lefever-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5628","title":{"rendered":"LeFever update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stock came about 90% inletted but the iron varies so they leave extra material in key areas. Not interested in buying another replacement stock set, I took my time and went slowly, tiny scraps of emery board and a scalpel my predominant tools.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" title=bellysmall.jpg href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bellysmall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image5620\" alt=bellysmall.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bellysmall.jpg\" height=250><\/a><br \/>\n This is one of the Ithaca LeFevers, so the belly has a tapered plate which makes getting the metal to wood fit&#8230; interesting. You have to blacken the receiver with a candle and assemble, then abrade away the spots where the wood touches metal, lather, rinse, repeat until you scream.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" title=topsmall1.jpg href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/topsmall1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image5623\" alt=topsmall1.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/topsmall1.jpg\" height=250><\/a><br \/>\nThe top is mostly straight lines so it was a bit easier. I don&#8217;t know how well the wood was dried and I don&#8217;t know how much shrinkage it has left, but I have left some small gaps that can be closed by pening up the wood where the tang hits the stock, later on.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" title=sidesmall.jpg href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sidesmall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image5625\" alt=sidesmall.jpg src=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/sidesmall.jpg\" height=250><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry about the crappy cellphone pics. If anyone can suggest a camera that does decent closeup work that doesn&#8217;t cost an arm and a leg, I&#8217;m all ears.  I really  likethe elegant line of this stock, which is whjy I want to make the gun usable again. I thought about bluing the receiver or color casehardening it, but I think a  cleaning and polish will do wonders, and preserve the elegance of the old girl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stock came about 90% inletted but the iron varies so they leave extra material in key areas. Not interested in buying another replacement stock set, I took my time and went slowly, tiny scraps of emery board and a scalpel my predominant tools. This is one of the Ithaca LeFevers, so the belly has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}