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I want to buy a few Oberndorf shaped bolt handles. Any opinions on who's handles are closest to the typical pre-war commercial Oberndorf in shape and size of the knob? Thanks Matt Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | ||
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Gidday Lots of people try and make these but there is a subtlety about them that is pretty hard to replicate. I have just had one done by a 'smith down here in NZ and its the best of the three that local guys have done, and as good as one I paid a fair bit for from the US. The best ones I've seen photos of from your side is those done by FalGrunt who posts here but I've not seen one of his up close and personal. | |||
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I personally like Duane Wiebes stuff. Here a bolthandle on my .300H&H   DRSS: HQ Scandinavia. Chapters in Sweden & Norway | |||
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I've just been looking at some pictures too, including the bolt handle I spoke of above (I have asked the 'Smith if its OK to post up his photo, no reply yet) and I think the problems in duplicating them start when the length is messed with, if you vary it just a tiny bit the whole "effect" is lost. I don't mean you can't vary the length, its just that then some other proportion changes too. I agree that Duane's ones (and Joel Dorleac's too for that matter) are very good | |||
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Wiebe's are on the top of my list so far, but I'm still looking. Matt Matt FISH!! Heed the words of Winston Smith in Orwell's 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." | |||
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jens, how did you get that stock so slim? | |||
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Jim Baier 406 892 4409 | |||
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Listen to Nick Hughes. He did mine for my 416 Rigby. | |||
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I just freehand/eyeball them out on my lathe.  | |||
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