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Thank you to all of you who offered insight on this my first Fox project (I have only worked on LC Smith's before). Although the break at the wrist is still obvious after a refinish it is plenty solid, and a benefit of doing all the work myself is if it ever breaks I will fix it again. I also feel that I cannot be accused of hiding a flaw to fleece a potential buyer as the break is still visible. I cut two extra lines of checkering on the wrist to hide some of the crack when I repointed it. There was actually a bunch of wood missing inside the stock that I had to replace with glass. The barrels are perfect on the inside, but had some bad pits on the right barrel at the muzzle. I had to file quite a bit before I rust blued them. There are still a few pits you can see if you look hard enough, but I was worried about filing too deeply right where the choke constriction started.
I still don't know if I am going to keep the gun or sell it off. I have a total of $300 in it (plus my time), so I should be able to get my money out of it. It was made in 1926. The only case color was on the back side of the forend iron, so I polished the frame and nitre blued the top lever. I did not need to do anything to the gun mechanically, and the lever is farther to the right than I have ever seen on a classic shotgun. Maybe the stock broke before it was used hard?
As my old middle school shop teacher used to ask "comments, questions, answers, insults?"
CHAZ
Thanks for the compliment, I am still learning. I love taking basket cases and making them shooters again. Hopefully as I progress I can start making shooters new again.
I blooded the old girl on quail yesterday, and I hate to admit that I shot it much better than the LC Smith that I took along.
Here is one pic of a quail getting up in front of "Elsie." You can just see my DD Kaiser in the grass between me and the bird. My 9 year old son took the picture.
