Two new rebuild jobs at least begun. Got the sewer-pipe barrels off a Sharps-Borchardt and a Winchester Low-Wall. The Remington 7mm Rolling Block Carbine is still "negotiating" with me.
Liquid Wrench, Kroil, heat, pounding on the action wrench, torque, vituperative incantations, repetition--the usual story. The threads weren't even rusty, as far as I could see. All it takes is being screwed together nice&tight for 100 years or so. Has my vote as the meanest job in gunsmithing.
I plan to reline the Borchardt with a 1-17" TJ's .45 Liner (shown above the barrel), and maybe mill the rear tang so one of those tang sight base tangs can be attached. Might leave the rest of it in its military configuration, except for front sight, which I can't see well.
The Low-Wall was just a receiver on a shot-out .22 Long barrel. I have a pretty good .25WCF barrel and a centerfire breechblock so I'll probably convert it to that. Need to round up some parts.
Don't know what I'm going to do with the Rolling Block yet. That miserable little tapered carbine barrel is hard to grab onto. It's the one they used to offer in the old gun magazines with the caveat "may be missing some parts." It lacks a forend, and has the correct breechblock for a sliding extractor but barrel and receiver are set up for a rotary extractor.
All these kind of jobs wind up being easier to start than to finish, of course.