That would mean he needs a buttstock for the FW frame series- Does he want an original 1913 stock- possibly from a "parts gun" or a later stock blank he can fit-
Re-stocking L.C. Smiths, as well as other sidelock shotguns, is a job calling for a top-rate stocker, not a job for an "rookie" with a few chisels on the bench. I very seldom if ever get buttstocks or forearms for not only Smiths, but other American doubles as well. Good luck!!
My "Debut" into gunsmithing was near onto 60 years ago. An uncle had an old Belgian hammer double marked W Richards (JABC) with a broken stock. At the time I "Thought" it was my Grandads, so I talked him out of it & decided to make a stock for it. One would be absolutely amazed at just how few Tools I used to make that stock. If I must say so myself, few people ever saw it I did a pretty decent job on it.
Then I found out it wasn't really my Grandad's gun but had actually been bought for my uncle when he was still at home. My Dad had got mixed up on the guns, my Grandads was also a W Richards but had Birmingham proofs. Still not a high-grade gun as such but had been better than the Belgian one. That one had some problems also so I finagled around with my uncle & traded him the one I had restocked back for the other one. A couple of years later he asked me one day if I could identify it if I saw it & I said yes, I could tell it by the stock I had made. It had disappeared & he had a couple of young boys working for him on his farm & though they might have stolen it.
About a year passed & he came by my house one day & told me he had found it. Seems he had gone out one day doing some fencing & carried it with him. While working on the fence he had laid it on the ground between the fence & a small creek & then forgot he had it with him. After lying on that creek bank for about a year it was, of course, a hopeless case.
Point is though when a person is determined enough they can accomplish a lot with little.
Ps; Most of the chisels I used were homemade. At the time my Dad worked for a sporting goods company where they made golf clubs. He brought me a few reamers which they used to ream the holes in the wood heads for the shaft. Making sure I didn't get them hot enough to draw the temper I ground my chisels from these. My outside shaping was mostly done with a drawknife & a rasp, then sandpaper.
