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- Mon May 13, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
- Topic: Not so technical question - butt pad screw plugs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 239
Re: Not so technical question - butt pad screw plugs
Have you considered putting a leather facing on the pad? It would solve two problems at once, that of the plugs backing out and also of them being a different color than the pad itself. Leather faced Silvers pads were not uncommon in the era. I have done one on a hunting SWE, and ...
- Mon May 13, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
- Topic: Not so technical question - butt pad screw plugs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 239
Re: Not so technical question - butt pad screw plugs
Have you considered putting a leather facing on the pad? It would solve two problems at once, that of the plugs backing out and also of them being a different color than the pad itself. Leather faced Silvers pads were not uncommon in the era. I have done one on a hunting SWE, and ...
- Sun May 12, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
- Topic: Not so technical question - butt pad screw plugs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 239
Re: Not so technical question - butt pad screw plugs
Have you considered putting a leather facing on the pad? It would solve two problems at once, that of the plugs backing out and also of them being a different color than the pad itself. Leather faced Silvers pads were not uncommon in the era. I have done one on a hunting SWE, and love it.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
- Topic: What to do with this 20 gauge Fox Sterlingworth?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1317
Re: What to do with this 20 gauge Fox Sterlingworth?
... drops of Japan Drier, according to the relative humidity. Tom, that leather faced pad has special significance to me. The leather was cut from my grandad's old duck hunting ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
- Topic: What to do with this 20 gauge Fox Sterlingworth?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1317
Re: What to do with this 20 gauge Fox Sterlingworth?
Love the leather faced pad. Guessing that was glued on.
- Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:18 pm
- Forum: Other Vintage Guns
- Topic: LC Smith Special Order 12ga 30"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1218
LC Smith Special Order 12ga 30"
... A-1's. The stock is highly figured with a crushed silver recoil pad leather faced. The checkering is fine and the pistol grip has a fancy shape. The gun is 2 3/4" ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:10 pm
- Forum: Fox Parts and Pieces, Lost and Found
- Topic: XE butt plate
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1269
Re: XE butt plate
Twin ivory sights and a leather-faced Silvers recoil pad were standard for the XE-grade but occasionally a customer ordered one with a butt-plate. ...
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:14 am
- Forum: Pictures of your Fox
- Topic: 1917 Fox XE Grade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2787
1917 Fox XE Grade
... extra full with weight held to 7 pounds 8 ounces. Very well balanced to leather faced Silvers pad. A wild turkey and Canada goose gun par excellance. This XE has a companion ...
- Tue May 15, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
- Topic: Original Recoil Pads used for AE grade 20ga
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2461
Re: Original Recoil Pads used for AE grade 20ga
Leather faced Silvers pad would work. Bobby
- Thu May 25, 2017 8:55 pm
- Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
- Topic: Original pad screws
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3049
Re: Original pad screws
Here is the original leather-faced "Silvers type" recoil pad and screws off CE-Grade 29291 --
- Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:19 pm
- Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
- Topic: What is your favorite hunting gun?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12980
Re: What is your favorite hunting gun?
... has 2-7/8" of drop with a 1/2" of cast off. 14-5/8 LOP over a leather faced Silvers pad. The single trigger has not failed a single time after about 500 rounds. ...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:42 am
- Forum: "Technicana" and Restoration Forum
- Topic: Quick Question on XE and recoil pads
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5870
Re: Quick Question on XE and recoil pads
One aspect not mentioned as yet is that the leather-faced Silver's pad commonly seen on original XE's is about 3/4" nominal thickness. This can be ...
- Fri May 08, 2015 11:09 pm
- Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
- Topic: Dates and pads and Sterlingworth Deluxe ?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5383
Re: Dates and pads and Sterlingworth Deluxe ?
... does have the bulkier Savage-era forearm. It is also fitted with a nice leather faced Silvers or Jostam Air-Cushon pad. As I've mentioned before, "workers were reaching ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:12 pm
- Forum: Fox Collectors Forum
- Topic: Number 2 set of barrels!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1542
Re: Number 2 set of barrels!
... optioned LCSmith Specialty Trap (32", 3", vent rib, BTFE, leather-faced pad) went for $4740 plus the premium.
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 2:13 pm
- Forum: Pictures of your Fox
- Topic: 16 Gauge Sterlingworth Ejector 1934-1935
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13126
Re: 16 Gauge Sterlingworth Ejector 1934-1935
I have a late Savage-era Fox-Sterlingworth Ejector Brush with a similar leather-faced pad which I'm sure in my own mind is original. For my records, does the gun in question ...