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Can anyone point me to an authority on the correct checkering lip for a Grade 5 LCS? If not, perhaps someone can tell me what an appropriate lpi would be.

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Jay,
I just measured mine, an '01 5E 12 ga. As best I can tell it's at least 36 LPI, and may be 40. Really difficult to measure !

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TPI gauge is the easiest way to measure checkering that I know of.


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Kinda' similar, my '29 Crown is 24 lpi.

36 lpi is pretty crazy - that's like stipling!

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I measured across the wrist-- three times. It's the finest checkering I've ever seen, and original. Remember, pre-'13 Smiths displayed exceptional workmanship.

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Originally Posted By: SKB
TPI gauge is the easiest way to measure checkering that I know of.


Primarily interested in knowing what would be period and grade correct. I was thinking 22-24 but it sounds like even that would be too course.

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Originally Posted By: Laxcoach
I measured across the wrist-- three times. It's the finest checkering I've ever seen, and original. Remember, pre-'13 Smiths displayed exceptional workmanship.


Wow! My Grade 5 is circa 1904-05 so we are talking the same vintage. Can you post some photos?

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Jay,
Glad you reminded me---I've failed to take pics of the gun, but will do first thing in the morning. Send me your email address and I'll send them to you. BTW, this gun has the last known horizontally-serrated triggers recorded in the records.
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Originally Posted By: Ithaca5E
Kinda' similar, my '29 Crown is 24 lpi.

36 lpi is pretty crazy - that's like stipling!


Yes, you are right Ithaca5E, there is an awful lot of b.s. on this thread.

24-26 LPI Grade 5 standard as per Houchins L.C. Smith book and the ones I have worked on, pre or post 1913. Extra lines at extra cost, just like today...but 32 LPI shows as the max that the hardest Turkish Circassian wood would hold and Turkish Circassian was not standard on the Grade 5 gun.





24-26 LPI L.C. No. 5


24-26 LPI L.C. No. 5








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It is hard to count without a gauge, but my 5E did have 24 LPI or so.

I can easily see miscounting it without a gauge


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