Carbine Hand Guard Source

[jon_norstog]

Rob, that is a really nice bit of work you've done there!

jn

[Dick Hosmer]

You're entirely welcome, and what you did was EXACTLY what I meant - there IS enough wood there to do a perfect job, if removed a bit at a time - and yours turned out beautifully!!

I'll go out on a limb here and hazard a guess (since the wood is SO fragile at that point) that even SA, or a repair depot, might have resorted to the trick a time or two - but we'll never know.

[Kragrifle]

How did you make the forward part of the handguard that is a lighter colored wood?

[Dick Hosmer]

How did you make the forward part of the handguard that is a lighter colored wood?

I believe that is simply a photo of where he had finished filing/sanding, but before he stained the raw spot. The beauty of this "conversion" is that the needed wood is all there, you just have to expose it VERY carefully, little by little, working like a sculptor. If done properly, the modified piece would be exactly like the real thing, and if "SUPER-well-done" would be absolutely indistinguishable.

[robh5]

How did you make the forward part of the handguard that is a lighter colored wood?

As Dick said below, it is showing how it looks after the excess wood was taken off, before staining. All I used was a utility knife and a dovetail saw, and a little bit of sandpaper.

[Kragrifle]

Very well done!