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My Army & Navy was proceeding swimmingly until I broke my stock. The wood is quite brittle. Though put off by the expense I believed my only recourse was to restock it. But seeing some of the excellent jobs others here have done to resurrect their old stocks, I waned to give it a try. I am currently stumped on how to deal with the portion where the the very thin portion of the broken piece meets the stock. I used urethane glue. On trying to feather at the meeting point of the two pieces, the very thin wood is wearing away and exposing the urethane. I am also worried about that area splintering as the wood is very thin. I can cover a lot with more checkering, but this area doesn't look stable and liable to splinter when checkered. I'm wondering about pegging the area shown. Here is a photo.


Please help!

Maybe, try a drop of an oil based finish to see if it optically hides the color of the glue. Doesn't look like the crack closed up well. I think it is how it will be, careful with the sanding. If it's sound or can be made sound, maybe Mark at gunart can help blend it. Best of luck with it.

If you do not get a perfect fit glue, even the best, is not going to hold in the long run. That repair needed pins or inleted wood to make the repair stronger. If the wood does not go back together perfectly you are wasting your time gluing it. You could just shoot it while it last and then think about resotcking.

I'm going to pin and peg the stock, but I don't know what to do about this thin part of the break. The wood at the scab is paper thin.

I would remove the trigger guard and make a grove (router) to accept a 1/2 inch thick length of baltic birch plywood and then pour colored accura glass into the repair filling any breaks and bedding the plywood into the wrist. This should leave a super strong wrist with the major part of the repair hidden by the shell of the original wood and the trigger guard. Checker and refinish to hide the repair as much as possible.

bill

A visual image of Bill's recommendation. Not my gun BTW.

The above picture is probably the best fix as a first guess without seeing the actual gun. Urathane glues are really bad ideas on this sort of break because the are soft set glues and don't cross link like epoxies do.

Now you tell me. I may have wiggled my way out of the glue mess I made.

This plywood insert looks pretty slick as it not only strengthens the wrist it will give me something to sink my screws into. The old wood was pretty brittle. What is this blue Aqua stuff??

Pooch,
With that repair the wrist would be strong enough that you could probably sand the wrist slightly thinner to remove that paper-thin wood, then rechecker it and your done.
Steve

What sort of glue is the plywood set into the stock with? I don't know where to find or how to handle an accura glass product. I do have that epoxy with the metal in it that seems to be hell for stout.