Anybody here have one or know where I can find one?

Thanks, Scott

Email this fellow and see what he has. He, dean, usually has some good stuff kicking around.

I will tomorrow. Thanks!

Goosic wrote: He is also on eBay as (dean156four) and currently showing a bunch of stocksets

Thanks, but almost everything he has listed on eBay is for a No4 with the exception of one No1 forend. It's a reproduction and $270. 

Yup, all DP or broken.

Just look very closely at any DP Forends.

The Wood used on DP rifles was used because it was (itself) not usable on a service rifle, it could be warped, damaged or out of spec.

Extract from the "Instructions To Armourers" regarding DP woodwork.

Use of DP woodwork :

 20. Repair of rifles No. 1 D.P.—Provision of stocks and handguards is made for the repair and maintenance of No. 1 D.P. rifles. They are supplied, as required, on demand through the usual channels. These components, marked “D.P.”, will not be used for the repair of rifles other than “D.P.”. Serviceable stocks and handguards must not be used for the repair and maintenance of “D .P.” rifles. Unserviceable stocks and handguards from service rifles which may be considered as suitable for “D.P.” rifles will be accumulated locally at Command Ordnance Depots and held pending the visit of an examiner from the C.I.S.A., Enfield Lock, who will finally sentence and mark them. Serviceable components, other than stocks and handguards, may continue to be used for the maintenance of “D.P.” rifles provided that the cost is unlikely to exceed the cost of factory repair with “D.P.” parts plus cost of transport of the rifles to and from the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock.

 Decent serviceable No1 MkIII  wood will be as deer as the new wood if you can find it. Even procuring a deactivated rifle to harvest the wood will be costly. I can never figure how deactivated guns could demand such prices, as they are essentially junk.

 My thinking with the Apex stocks would be to scrub the marks and repair and refinish to suit. Just saying. The ones with the rear sight ears are probably the better of what Apex have.

 Tree yrs years ago, I found a very nice WWI fore stock for one of my projects and it wasn`t cheap, and needed a fair bit of attention.

Good luck in your search.

Alot of "Aged/Used" good furniture for the Lee-Enfield such as yours end up in a hoarding situation and lost to the outside world  leaving individuals to either purchases questionable wood or new unblemished wood while paying enormously high prices with purchase of the new wood being the better option however. 

As an example of the hoarding situation. I personally know an individual who lives in the metropolitan Phoenix area who owns between 35 - 45 SMLE rifles, dated between 1915 and 1944. For each of those rifles he has a minimum of 3 spare stocksets, "just in case" something were to happen to those rifles which happen to be sitting in a walk in vault that is bomb and fire proof.

You have your options layed out for yourself as presented to you by our forum members here, including myself. Good luck on your quest and may the odds be your favor...

 Wow Was just at prestigious site, the layout has changed and they`ve increased their pricing quite a bit, in some cases by almost $200Cnd.

 They`ll be pricing themselves out of business.

Used to be an affordable alternative to good original wood, but now original seems cheaper than their stuff.

 This game is becoming unaffordable for the average work-a-day Joe.

Gossic, I have an acquaintance who`s a collector of all things Canadian Militaria, huge collection of enfields, sniders. martini`s, parts, bits and bobs, he could open a store. Will he share with spares, nope. So yep the enfield hoarders are out there, and effectivly make the stuff scarce and expensive.

There used to be soooo much enfield stuff here in Canada, and not that long ago, not so much anymore.

I know quite a few hoarders here as well. I know a gut that has literally 100's of M1 Garands and many thousands of NOS spare parts for them. He won't sell any of it and he is in his 80's

As I`m continually looking for parts I`ve not seen any, anywhere, besides DP stock which may be your only option at this point for original wood.

The only other viable option is new reproduction.

The old parts are rapidly disappearing. Like yourself its becoming ever increasingly difficult for the average joe to repair or restore these old rifles.

I have a reproduction top set, hand guards if interested.

Thanks for the offer. I am going to wait on the hand guards until after I procure a forend. Want them to kind of match as close as possible.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/172593669716

I am currently watching an original sporterized wood stock.