According to the Ideal's disassembly instructions, each Ideal was sold with a tool kit which allowed "unbungled" disassembly. The paddle shaped tool locks the under lug in the open position with the underlever in the depressed position allowing the stock to be removed without chipping the top strap's surrounding wood. Here are two such kits. The striker disc tool and tapered screw drivers fit inside the wooden handle when not in use and are held in the metal slot in the metal cap at the narrow end. Chris Dawe did beautiful stock work on an Ideal of mine. Gil
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