Joseph Scott

The wartime originals had the red pebble finish covers, round corners, and lightweight paper just a little thick than bible paper. I have one signed with owner at Aberdeen proving grounds. The square ones were post war from company in Az. who reprinted various manuals. I also printed some with round corners but was never able to find the pebble finish cover paper. Mine were stamped with my name.

The one without roller is probably a Dror bolt.

At the old large Pomona (LA) show , there was a dealer who made hundreds of different stamps. Any country or name, inspector marks. Two women were selling nice wood with faked stamps. Some stocks have numbers which I believe were "rack" numbers from Nederlands or Argentina.

I still have plenty of new main springs. $30 plus shipping. Message me for address. Joe

I will cover several items; looked close at 0067 displayed on Rock Island auction table. Definitely a put together gun as reported by previous owner MC41. Still has SC barrel. They are wishing or smoking something if they expect to get $14-21,000. Didn't walk show myself except to look at 0067. Others reported four M1941 SAR's on floor, two for sale, two on auction displays. Did not hear of the carbine clone sale. A nice one that I sold for $6 some years ago, sold for $10K with bayonet. I sold two original bayonets and two original stocks that I had been hoarding. Looked at a perfect, all correct, #5698 belonging to MC41. He bought this several years ago at an sale of 18 Jonson rifles. He called me at the time to get the assembly numbers and discuss other details such as light cross grain sanding marks, etc. It is the most perfect rifle, I have ever seen. I asked how did you disassemble without leaving screw slot marks. he answered, I put masking tape on screwdriver tips. even the stock has the correct number. To get this one, is why he sold 0067 (put together) gun. The show was packed again and lots of sales. Mr wannamaker died this year and badges have his picture on them. Tables are going up to $200 next show. Had to decide whether to renew. Will be back same location 12la. Several vendors are quitting at $200 ea for tables. There was a gun discharge upstairs, but no details. Have ordered 6 walnut stock blanks and hope to have them by Nov show. Used to pay $65, now blanks are $265 plus shipping.

It is my opinion that these numbers are inspectors or shift numbers of the wood manufacturer. #2 might have been day shift. Sometime they are on the end next to magazine and not as clear in the end grain.

The light sanding marks are sometimes visible on the rear sides of the wood. Very hard to find in good light if you hold it just right. Maybe MC41 can get a picture of his wood and post it. These came from worker holding wood by ends across a wide floppy belt. All sanding done by "mark 1 eye ball" per manufacturing video. Then it shows stocks being dipped in a dark oil, drained and buffed on a large leather wheel. Original wood is dark, inside and out.

With respect to the pin retainer, I used .012" steel shim stock- hand bent. I once flattened a good one to get correct shape, there are small "teeth" on each end and a curve where the pin arm goes. A punch die would be expensive, then a die for forming in three directions even more expensive. You would have to use annealed spring steel and then heat treat after forming. Just not worth the cost to make new ones.

That retainer has no original name or part number, It is my belief that the wood supplier made or installed them. I used to make some but broke three for every good one. Never found twisted nails source. A shortened paneling nail works. I consider this the only weak point of the rifles.

I will be downstairs at island 12la. The row of islands closest to street is A, The L is lower level and 12 is table rows from east to west. Joe

I suggest that this report be added to the combat section of main website.

I used to make the fabricated Johnson bipods. I also made three of the early BAR style. All were stamped "JS". No longer making them due to vision problems.

I don' t believe it is for 1941 model. Incorrect markings for that model and I can't see if it has steps for lug and front sight. Suspect it is for their after war sporter production.

Note that the sling swivel is not original, believe it to be 1917 Enfield.

The key over the trigger locates the trigger group/receiver, the small key in butt stock locates the recoil tube. These keys should be 8" apart for correct functioning. The key holes are square to prevent rotation. Each end of holes are counter-bored only deep enough for the screw heads. I have seen any number of key slots drilled all the way through on the stock duplicator.

I have had to drill the recoil tube on a couple of his stocks. He does nice outside work but has no idea about the drilling. A receiver has nothing to do with the tube drilling.

Your cracked stock is a Winfield made replacement. It can be glued with superglue until you find another stock.

I learned that Dr. Alpert died in August. He was a major contributor to our website and knowledgeable about Johnson guns. He was also an outstanding surgeon and teacher on facial re-constuctions. Google his name to read obituary.

I am currently out of town, will mail check saturday. Some years ago, I digitized many of the drawings and papers for Ed and sent him six dvd's for certain team members. However, they were not completely organized. If possible, it would be nice to put them in order and reshoot them. This would save future trips to Springfield and handling of papers. No telling what order they might be after auctions persons looked through them. My daughter filmed them flat on floor with high quality Minolta 35mm camera.

Do you have any buyers names so we can know where they went?

I am not sure how to work this funding. I suspect whoever gets their bid will have to make payment. How can we get our commitments to him quickly enough?

I have a printed auction book for estimates. Log book, lot #208- $1000-2000; Blueprints, documents,etc, lot# 212- $400-600. I would guess you will have to pay commission, shipping, etc of about 20/25%. I will contribute up to $1000 towards purchase, log book first, then papers next. Matconcrete, if you can't attend, they take phone bids.

I talked to the auction people and learned that the production log and many blueprints, papers, etc. are also for sale. What items do you consider most important to purchase to prevent disappearance into someone's personal collection. I will try to purchase them if we can find a home for them. I am too old to keep them. Even though I had digitized many of the papers, I think we should try to save them. The gun estimated prices are wild guesses according to the person behind the tables. Suggestions?

there were four or five auctions houses displaying for upcoming sales. There are several at each Tulsa show.

For years, I used a Verizon 4G hot spot provided through step-daughters school system (teachers lease). recently, the administrator suddenly cancelled Verizon and went to AT&T 5G without notice. He killed the Verizon accounts without warning and gave teachers the AA&T 5G hot spots, here use these. Without knowing this, I kept trying to log on to my 4G g-mail account. When 5G hot spot arrived and I tried using that, the IP address was different and Google thought hackers were attacking my e-mail and locked it down. I had a Guru, try two days to recover account and could not. E-mail still goes to Google server but I cannot access it. Finally, had to set up an account on Icloud.com. My email is now jmscottparts@icloud.com. The 5G hot spot is working but sometimes is slow as dial-up. AT&T is not strong in this area and is known to slow service if very busy. It also doesn't like to go through aluminum foil insulation siding. Beware of the changes to 5G. I did get the message system on this board working before all of this new problem. Joe