Marlin 39-A

[ToddsPoint]

Actually, I’d tend to have a machine shop precision drill a scope mount plate that will use the existing threaded holes your dad tapped.

They can be really good at high tolerance work.

The rifle had a scope mounted on a V strip on top of the receiver. I’ll put it back on and add a peep site I just bought. No scope for this one.

 

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[Tesorodeoro]

The rifle had a scope mounted on a V strip on top of the receiver. I’ll put it back on and add a peep site I just bought. No scope for this one.View attachment 2173097View attachment 2173098

So the mount uses factory screws?

 

[Tesorodeoro]

I’m jealous. My dad has one and my younger brother bought one.

Fantastic (although heavy) squirrel guns.

As a side note. I highly doubt they failed to machine or finish a part during that era. They were hand fitted.

Perhaps someone replaced a part which didn’t mate with the fitted part?

 

[Retired Sarge]

I like the dimensions of your forend. That’s what I’m going to shoot for. I think about the time they added the white spacers they updated the forend and thinned it down. You can see on this pic of my ‘48 model with the factory wood how thick it is compared to yours. View attachment 2173085

If it helps you, I can trace mine and send you the results, so that you can use it as a rough pattern. That way it'll put you in the neighborhood and then you can hone it to your liking

 

[Tesorodeoro]

The forarm is kind of fat from the factory. Maybe to fit on a shooting rest better? Maybe use a caliper to measure it in a couple places?

 

[detectorcowboy]

Wow, look at you, nice work.

 

[ToddsPoint]

If it helps you, I can trace mine and send you the results, so that you can use it as a rough pattern. That way it'll put you in the neighborhood and then you can hone it to your liking

If you could measure it that would be a help. The old factory forend measures 1.6”, both the width and the height.

 

[ToddsPoint]

So the mount uses factory screws?

This strip mounts on the receiver and the peep sight mounts on the strip. I need to find some screws and I’ll get it mounted.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Wow, look at you, nice work.

Thanks! I made my first gunstock in 1980. I’ve made dozens. Nearly all were semi-finished stocks. I have made several from scratch though. When I was a kid I’d go in the gun shop and see guns with beautiful wood. Those guns were always way out of my league price wise but I was determined to get some wood like that. I ended up cutting my own wood and milling it. Now I have my pick of some of the nicest walnut in the Midwest.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I took quite a bit off the forend. I think it looks better and is closer to Sarges mountie. Next I’ll try and find the black and white bullseye thing for the butt. I need to flute the comb and rework grip area.

 

[WoodsDigger]

Love my model 39a. Was my first 22.

My first 22 also. Think it's a 1943. Amazingly it's still in the family.

 

[ToddsPoint]

My screws came and I got the peep sight mounted. Peep sights are a blessing for old eyes. More wood work still to do.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’m old and slow but still moving forward. Here’s the forend with the first coat of finish. The left side doesn’t have the figure the right side does. Mother Nature did it!

 

[WoodsDigger]

My screws came and I got the peep sight mounted. Peep sights are a blessing for old eyes. More wood work still to do.View attachment 2173597

I switched to the optic glow sites . Fire sites I think . However they wash together so it works but not wonderful for my old eyes. Way back when I could shoot a grape off a tooth Pic at 50 feet over and over
with my 1940s 39A.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I re-did my brothers (families) childhood Marlin 22 and it was so satisfying to bring it back to a new look ,Also re-did a 30-30 from the WW2 era Winchester couldn't give an exact date as records were spotty during those years so I only know it is between 1943 to 1945 and a 10 guage Sears and Roebucks shotgun. Had to replace the buttstock on the 30-30. It had broken during a hunt and had a field repair of wet deer hide wrapped around the broken stock. The wet deer hide rusted up the interior workings in that area of the gun and it was also found in an outdoor shed. But looking down the barrel I found it clean just a lot of rust pitting on exterior of gun. It might end up as just a wall hanger.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I’m still working on the butt. I started cutting the flutes. I’m still shaping the grip cap area.

 

[ToddsPoint]

I have a couple of coats of truoil on the forend. It will take several more. I think I will look pretty good when finished.

 

[ToddsPoint]

With the forend completely finished I’m working on the butt. All the sanding is finished and this is what it looks like wet with the second coat of truoil. It will be completely finished and on the gun this week hopefully.

After it cures for a while it will be ready to carve. I’m think of doing a similar pattern as this.

I did some fish scales on this hammer handle I made. It provides the best grip ever. Far better than standard checkering. I’ve been carving wood since ‘11 so this oak leaf and scale pattern won’t be a problem.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It's going to be a beauty when you finish, can't wait to see it when you finish it completely.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

It appears this is something you are supposed to be doing as a master craftsman.