Greg: your mauser might be a good project gun for a1 or two week NRA gunsmithing class at participating gunsmithing schools - uisually in the summer.
Thanks for that. Murray State would be the one that I would most likely attend. The timing won't work for me this year though. It looks like they do have some classes I would be interested in taking in the future though.
Right now, I'm relying on the book "Gunsmithing Made Easy" by Bryce Towsley along with copious reading on the internet, and my own mechanical i̶n̶e̶p̶t̶i̶t̶u̶d̶e̶ aptitude to get me through this project. That's why I decided to ask questions here, to get answers to questions I haven't been able to find on my own.
