1905 Marlin '94 needs help.

[aametalmaster]

Hi guys. I found this gun cleaning out my dads shop. I found it in 4 different piles of parts. He said he got it from a guy who 50 years ago was hunting and it was raining and turned to snow (typ Ohio weather). Well he shot and the rain in the barrel had froze and now the barrel has some splits. It was chambered in .32-20 I have looked for another barrel for almost 7 months and those that made barrels don't have anymore in stock. So i found a NOS .25 octagon barrel blank on gunbroker.com at a great price. I haven't got it yet but making plans of a .25-20 old lever gun. I can thread it and cut all of the extractor grooves but i have never chambered a lever gun and i don't have reamers or a throat cutter. So i prob will take it to a guy i know and just pay him to make it shoot again. Anyway the gun is rough but the woods real good. Prob just glass bead it and blue it. It will be just a shooter not a show piece. So anyway here's where i am starting...Bob