Post by axenige on Nov 19, 2007 2:50:28 GMT 1
matt1990 said:
The golf doctor lol,axenige how do you know so bloody much! ;D what do you do work wise? years of wasting my life ;D
work these days is military stuff for many different areas, from film and re-enactment work, too special pouches for British forces operating in Afghanistan. My real trade is that of Upholstery and car trimming, although I did many years ago do all my City and Guilds in Industrial and auto motive engineering, plus a B-Tec national at the now defunked Wellingborough collage site.
So WW2 interests and engineering skills equals
MK1* Sten Gun which was Scratch built by me ;D, that includes the Khaki yellow rifle sling yes I made that as well
lol i did a year at welly doing maintenance and repair got city an guilds but a mixture of chavs and pikeys put me off the second year lol. So you build guns from scratch as a hobby? 
. The problem was that in the being I decided to make a very rare model (total production under a 100,000) made by Singer Manufacturing (the sewing machine people) and as a result I had big problems getting the correct reference information as the Mk1* sten is different in many ways too all the other models that were made during WW2 and there are only about 3 real ones left in the world, as the majority of them where melted down sometime in the mid to late 1970's as scrap metal, so there is now only, one at the R.E.M.E. museum (MK1*), one at The Imperial War Museum (Mk1), and finally one in the Royal Armories collection (MK1 ands Mk1*), these all require written permission to view and handle. So all in about ten years work, the main problem was the front barrel bushing, as there was not any information or good reference pictures of sizes and what it looked like, but anyway I got there eventually. The Sten is now on loan to a local museum as part of a display showing the generic development of the sten gun series, and is the only Mk1* replica in the world ;D
havent got a clue who that is dude lol