Originally Posted by John Roberts
You picked a real honey to fix up. The mashed wood fingers at the head of the stock is unfixable short of splicing, which requires the talents of a real artisan, and the forend is in the same shape. Screws wallowed out, probably has some pits in the barrels just guessing. A hard-used old brown gun. Have fun and good luck…
JR

I’m seeing really decent English boxlocks selling for less than the presumed cost of a full blown restoration of an LC Smith. The debate about the worth of doing something like that with an LC Smith rages on (to those that rage, anyway, some of us walked away clean a long time ago) but, it would be hard for me to pretend any American double was the equal of even a middle of the pack ‘brummy boxlock.

I’m not buying said restoration, but, do hear another man’s opinion before opening your wallet and letting those thousand dollar bills blow into the weeds:

https://vicknairgunsmithing.blogspot.com/2016/01/an-unbiased-look-at-design-of-american.html

Best,
Ted