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SXS Ohio - what a beauty. That is a great restoration. I appreciate your approach.

Project is complete. Very pleased with the restoration.

First time posting .I am a Fox small bore junkie . Started with an A Grade 16 with 28" #4 weight barrels and got hooked big time . I've since found a few more A grades , 20 and 16 , most with 28" tubes but a few with 30" . Picked up a couple Sterlys too. I have a 15" LOP and the...

Here are the two completed forends. Top is the original, barrel set #2, restored. Bottom is the newly built forend for barrel set #1. I thought they matched well. Excited to get it in my hands.

This gun did not have ebony inserts. This pic is of barrel set #2 (refurbishing this forend).

Replaced stock and forend #1 are nearing completion. Note the checkering pattern, which is original to the gun. From my research there was quite a bit of variation in checking patterns in the early small bores.

Jim: Both sets are 28", 3 weight barrels.

I posted some pics of this gun earlier in the year. The gun is Serial #3 and is a two barrel set, and built as an ultralight (per notes on the card, to be built as light as possible). Unfortunately, the stock and forend of barrel set #1 are pretty much toast so I chose to replace the wood on the ori...

Researcher - I stand corrected, "one of the first", not "the" first smalbore 20 ga.

This is a great gun! I have been looking for information and examples of these early small bores. I recently acquired what is likely the first graded small bore made. It exhibits many of the same features as your CE 16. Mine is a 20 bore, #200003. It is a double barrel set, all # matching. The secon...