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    Posted: March 20 2017 at 8:59am
Whats the correckt wood material for the buttstock, rear and front handguard and olso the main under handguard for a 1917 mod made in UK? It seams to be a lot of possibleties for this rifles in ebay. Is valnut the correckt material?
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he!!o gents
Is there someone who got some stockset for a no1 mklll dusting down somewhere? Realy struggeling to find wood parts for my rifle
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Stanforth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2017 at 4:55am
The but stock on the British made SMLE is usually walnut.
 
The one shown in the image is an unused No.4 stock and it fitted without any modification.
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Okay, nice rifle :) hopefuĺly mine will look more like this one someday, thanks for info
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Yes, all the wood for a 1917 dated & UK produced SMLE would have been walnut originally.
 
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Okey thanks. I posted a picture of the butstock of my rifle in another topic
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what you are seeing on the net for sale is a large number of indian and austrailian wood moetly indian , these could be anything the australian would be coachwood i think , others more knowledgeable about current offerings will be more accurate , 

you want walnut for that vintage of english made rifle , 
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Yes, thanks, trying to find all peices in orginal walnut, and I belive it will cost more than a new when its finish
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I will have some very good wood very shortly..but its for No4's
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To rebuild my MKIII See image in my last post) was.. Bottom fore end £40... Butt stock (No.4) £27.
The top hand guards were OK.
Total £67 this should convert straight into $'s. and with some change in euro's. If you budget for £100 it would seem a no brainer to me. Remember all the bits I got were in walnut and in the last 6 months and all of the new/unissued.
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Think I overpayed for the parts in ebay, seems like others than me colleckts parts, so price for a foreend stock in unused condition easely passes 200£
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