Menzel/Mauser *C Stock, caught in the belt sander?

[Bob in OHIO]

Here's a svw 1945, with *C stock, with some normal chatter, but also a "rough patch" on the right side from beneath the TD disk up to the inlet for the bolt handle. The patina suggests this rough patch was period done. Apparently, late-war Menzel stocks came to Mauser, and then were belt sanded...

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All the 'c' stocks used by Mauser have the takedown disk, at least every one I have owned or viewed. Even the late stocks with no final WaA135 have the small asterisk "*" stamped just behind the 'c', and a takedown disk assembly. The postwar 'c' stocks diverted to Brno will have no chatter, the...

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Maybe a rook was on the sander and dug in creating this patch? Maybe it was "bring your kid to work day", and he wacked the stock?

Note: the front action screw...

Also, is the receiver phosphate or blue?

 

[flynaked]

That’s very interesting, and looks correct. There are so many repairs and accepted conditions we see on late stocks, so I don’t doubt it. The right receiver inletting repairs on Molln stocks, filler work on multiple makers, mostly Brünn etc. Neat gun.

 

[heavy_mech]

I like it too. That haphazard and aggressive sanding in 1 or 2 spots doesn't seem that rare on late stocks. As for the receiver, weak bluing maybe?

 

[yellowkid]

I vote phosphate bob! Beautiful gun. And agree my MO-used Menzel stocks all appear to have more finishing/sanding than the gustloff examples and I always assumed MO did a little more finishing as you suggested.

 

[bruce98k]

Blued dual tone. Legacy had this for sale and pics clearly show blued receiver with phosphated bolt.

 

[flynaked]

It looked like the legacy gun was missing the stock acceptance, nice spot if so.

 

[swjXE]

To me it looks like it was done with a file rather than any kind of power tool. Just trying to be real.

 

[Bob in OHIO]

Bands look dark gray, but still uncertain on the rec/barrel... bolt is lighter gray...

 

[heavy_mech]

To me it looks like it was done with a file rather than any kind of power tool. Just trying to be real.

Yes, looks like a wood rasp to me. Pics 8 and 9 really show this.

 

[bruce98k]

Original images from the Legacy sale.

Images and finish aside, a real nice Oberndorf 'c' stock.
If I didn't already have a few, would have been all over this.
Good score.

 

[Muncher 1953]

Yes, looks like a wood rasp to me. Pics 8 and 9 really show this.

I’d only add that the marks seem too irregular for a power tool. Were hand held electric belt sanders even a thing before/during WW2? Those I remember from the ‘50s-‘60s were huge & heavy. Might have been air-powered, but marks don’t indicate that sort of tool. There might have been some sort of gluing voids that required rasping, hints of that further down the stock by the TD disc…..
edit, invented in 1926 by an employee of Porter-Cable co!

 

[swjXE]

I can't help but believe that Bubba broke out his set of rasps to round out the grip and give it a better feel when out "pig huntin" and then realized he didn't have any sandpaper to finish up the job. If original this stock has hit an all time low so far for a Menzel stock. No arguing that the stock is original to the rifle and that the rasp work was done a long time ago, the only question is by whom.

 

[mowzerluvr]

Asterisk on the wood like my semi-krieg stock.