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t.r.
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White spacers

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I removed the spacers, spray painted them black, and re-installed them. To my view, white spacers are not for me. If the paint wears off, I'll likely buy a black plastic trash can and make my own spacers.

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First thing I do is remove white spacers, can't abide them.
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Black Spacers matter :mrgreen:
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Re: White spacers

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Just look a woodcraft.com, buy a piece of ebony and make a classy grip cap. Could even go one further, add the ebony and then inlet a skeleton grip cap! I'd bet it would be the only Marlin with one!
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Ebony and hickory side beside in perfect harmony on my Marlin buttstock.

Do you think Michael and Paul could have used those words? :lol:

Seriously, I never bothered with the white spacers. I guess it is because I don't care whether they are on or not.
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They made as much sense as fins on sedans in 1959.
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If they really matter to you, a black sharpie is a quick and fairly permanent fix.
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Don't care if they are there or not.
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Bill in Oregon wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 7:03 pm They made as much sense as fins on sedans in 1959.
In which case they make a very great style statement. 8) I do love fins on cars. Straight up, rolled over or flaring out to the side, they add a stylish look.
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It would seem as if we have several opinions on style. It could be worse.
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I can't live with white spacers either. If I meet them I take them off, or if I can't do that I paint them black.
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Well all youn genst that are taking them off your guns please send me an email and I will provide my address for you to send them to me. I buy and sell quite a few Marlins and lots of them have buggered spacers. Around here you will hear it if the Marlins don't have the white spacers when trying to sell.
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There was a time when they were in style. Almost every gun maker used them. Removing then would remove collector value
on some guns. That said, I can take them or leave them but prefer my guns without them.
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Then it became oh so popular to not like them, they had to go.
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We bought out an old gunsmith's parts and among the old recoil pads was a box full of white spacers. Must be a bunch of people don't like them.
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I never liked white spacers on anything. They always looked more modern than I cared for and tacky at best on anything. I discovered that on Marlins, they shot pins into the buttplates and spacers to hold them in place, I suppose when drilling and mounting the plate. I tapped the pins in a little more, filed the boss around the screw holes down that indexed the spacers, and put the hard rubber butt plate back on without the spacer.
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I took them off a Fajen stocked sporterize do Swedish Mauser. Still has an exaggerated California style stock but it looks much better.
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Chuck 100 yd wrote: Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:57 pm There was a time when they were in style. Almost every gun maker used them. Removing then would remove collector value
on some guns. That said, I can take them or leave them but prefer my guns without them.
when I was a kid growing up in the 6o's-70's, they were all the rage. So I was sort of numbed to them. Don't care for them on my personal guns either.
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