Restoring a garden gun

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Restoring a garden gun

Post by blackisler » Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:15 pm

I recently aquired a 9mm garden gun which had been sadly neglected for past 40 odd years ,the barrel was rusted and stock varnish all flaking off, after some work with wirewool the rust was not as bad as first thought and after putting a bronze brush through the barrel was surprised to see a clean and shine bore.
I started on the woodwork and the varnish just fell off and got another surprise as the wood was not a white hard wood stained but was infact walnut will post more as i do more as i am in act of oiling the stock
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Post by Niner » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:26 pm

We've talked about "garden guns" on the chats. That's something I am looking forward to seeing as a restored example.
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Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:18 am

You can own one of the 9mm 'Garden Guns' in France as a Cat7 gun but the prices of new ones are just STUPID! Tatty Manu.Arm single shot bolt action - 187€ / £150 / $250 ! :shock:
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Post by 24626151 » Tue Dec 07, 2010 2:35 pm

I have one I paid about £20 for about 20 years ago, its by Voere and came with some 9mm rf slugs as well! Pretty good nick still, thats probably because it doesnt come out too often!
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Post by blackisler » Sun Dec 12, 2010 3:12 pm

just after first oiling with walnut stain
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Re: Restoring a garden gun

Post by DuncaninFrance » Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:31 am

Looks good Robert
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Re: Restoring a garden gun

Post by blackisler » Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:38 pm

I think this is going to take a while to finish
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Do I leave the original finish or do I completly reblue?
Do I leave the original finish or do I completly reblue?
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I think another couple coats or so of linseed oil
I think another couple coats or so of linseed oil
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Re: Restoring a garden gun

Post by Brass Rat » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:41 pm

Do I leave the original finish or do I completly reblue?
Is there any of the original finish left on it?
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Re: Restoring a garden gun

Post by blackisler » Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:20 pm

Hi B R .
No there is very little of original finish left when I got it there was a lot of surface rust which I at first thought was pretty deep embedded into the barrel but was pleasantly surprised when i did an initial rust removal and found only a couple spots of pitting which was not bad tther resyt came off but it did reveal very little of original finish .
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Re: Restoring a garden gun

Post by Niner » Sat Jan 22, 2011 3:06 pm

What would browning do to it....the surface color being that far gone? Not as difficult to do as bluing either. I've browned a muzzle loader project gun before and I liked the way it came out....but it was on bare steel that had not been blued or browned before.


I used the Larel Mountain Forge solution.

http://www.laurelmountainforge.com/barr ... n_inst.htm
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