Your earlier post seemed over critical and cruel (and somewhat snobbish)because you had no more idea than the rest of us whether the broken stock had been adequately and safely repaired prior to the cosmetic work or not....Geo
I too, am glad Steve took the time to explain his brief initial critism of this work. But as one of "the rest of us", I could easily see that this was in all liklihood a very shoddy repair job done prior to Mark buying it. The gap in the gray epoxy glue joint approaches or exceeds 1/8" in many places. At least we can say it wasn't clamped together so tightly as to get excess squeeze out and starve the glue joint. The work looked more like someone was repointing mortar joints in bricks than properly preparing, fitting and gluing a break in walnut.
Lacking an x-ray of the repair, I suppose it is possible that a tough hickory spline or dowel was morticed and glued in. Heck, maybe there's a 5 inch long piece of 1" rebar Acraglassed inside that broken wrist. It might hold together if you packed the barrels with nitroglycerin. But I doubt it. Given the circumstantial evidence of shoddy fit and improper materials, it would take a humongous leap of faith to suppose that repair is structurally sound. This is bubble gum and baling wire without the baling wire.
If any of us bought a gun at a gunshow that had such a hideous repair expertly concealed, and it became evident after breaking upon firing, we would be justifiably pissed and hopefully not injured. As I advised Mark earlier, this type of work has its' place, but this ain't it.
