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When small game closes in a few weeks, I want to refinish the stock on an L.C. Smith. As there is almost no finish at present, I've been able to steam out the minor nicks. But there are some fairly deep gouges that I'd prefer not to sand out. Can anyone provide some guidance on filling them? Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Brownells sells shellac sticks in various walnut colors that you can heat the blade of an old knife or piece of metal and then touch it to shellac stick and smear it on the gogue in stock. May take several times to fill if bad.Then use sandpaper on a sanding block to smooth up and get level with wood Bobby
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Good answer, Bobby!
Hey...when you gonna post some pics/details somewhere of one of your forty-leven Fox projects? Maybe the 30" flyweight 16ga?
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Mike, making that forend wood from scratch for the graded ejector iron is a booger bear and i am getting old! Bobby
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Bobby:
Is there any trick to matching the color? I'm at bare wood now.
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I really like the results I am getting with garnet shellac to match the old red/brown color on stocks.
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I always steamed dents the way the gunsmithing books tell us... placing damp pad over dent and applying my hot iron to force steam down into the dent. Was raising dents in an Ithaca stock last week and found a better way on some stubborn dents that wouldn't raise much. After several tries, I soaked the dent with 50-50 mix of rubbing alcohol and water and then applied my damp pad and hot iron to generate steam from within the wood. Much better. In fact the only sign of some dents was the fuzzy raised grain. I even got some areas with broken grain fibers to come up almost flush. Make iron very hot and don't scorch the wood.
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Norm they use to come in different shades of walnut.I bought several years ago and do not know if i still have them. Acraglas or clear epoxy with sawdust from your stock mixed in might give you a decent match.Test on a scrap piece of wood to see. Bobby
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Thanks guys, I truly appreciate your responses. I guess the question I'm really asking is, when I put the shellac in place it should match the color of the finished piece - not the raw wood? If I'm wording this incorrectly, a slap upside the head might help!!
Also upon taking it apart, I discovered a crack running vertically behind where the top lever goes down through. I seem to recall thinned super glue as a fix - correct, or another gaffe on my part?
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Remove any oil present first.
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