{"id":5644,"date":"2013-02-14T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2013-02-14T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:00:19","slug":"i-have-disassembled-the-lefever-as-far-as-it-will-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=5644","title":{"rendered":"I have disassembled the LeFever as far as it will go."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was my intention to try to clean up the receiver and possibly refinish it, and in the process I figured I&#8217;d have to sand it and polish it, but as I began I looked at some of the deep scratches on it and thought, I can make this look really gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought, all those scratches have memories associated with them. I could get rid of them, but it would be as if I were denying all those memories. SO I have decided, make it functional, get it clean, and leave it alone. The new stock and forend will insure it can be used for a long time to come, something I could hand on to my grandchildren, if I have any. I would rather keep it&#8217;s memories- and battle scars- intact, and let future generations guess at each scratch and dent. I will buff it some to give it a bit of color, and let time and handling turn the reciever a nice plum color.<\/p>\n<p>I have a repro LeFever buttplate coming for it tomorrow. I hope to have it finished by the end of the month- sanded and a couple dozen coats of Antique Oil. And a new friend has promised me he will help me get my trap skills back up to par. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was my intention to try to clean up the receiver and possibly refinish it, and in the process I figured I&#8217;d have to sand it and polish it, but as I began I looked at some of the deep scratches on it and thought, I can make this look really gorgeous. And then I [&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-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644"}],"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=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}