Reassembled:
1) All metal cleaned with electrolysis or soaking in solvent.
2) After seeing how poorly the color match was on the replacement piece was on the grip, I used ebony on the comb. Thought it would make a nice detail also.
3) Shoulda, coulda, oughta have repaired the bit around the tang. When I started, I didn't think it would come out this well. Really bugging me now.
4) Recutting the checkering was a bit odd. My checkering has gotten good enough that following crooked and oddly spaced lines was a challenge.
5) When I started, the barrel was loose on the action. See that spanner nut on the barrel? Once all the rust & gunk was cleaned up, it tightened up nicely to the action and the barrel is now firmly mounted.
6) Bedded the tangs with epoxy. As you can see most of the cracks started there when the stock was first broken
7) Only a couple of light coats of finish on the buttstock. Enough to bring out the grain and provide some protection.
8) Could have done a lot more renovation, but my goal was not to make it look new.
Don't expect the future owner to shoot it a lot, but it should hold up to a reasonable amount of use.
