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I had a black Pachmayr Old English pad on a nicely figured English stock and Ithought it complimented the lines in the wood beautifully

Here is a black leather covered pad on a Turkish walnut stock. The pad is a .8 Pachmayr Old English.

I've heard mixed reviews about their service and gun smithing, but I cannot comment on it because I have not used them myself.

Winters in Atco did a nice job for me on a rubber pad, but I haven't seen a leather one by him.

Doug, can a leather pad be installed using a Cervellati microcell pad as a base?

I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the above pads look very nice matching the darker grain. I have also seen photos of the burgundy pig leather pad on one of LeFusil's stocks and it looked outstanding as well. Gil

Doug Mann did a black leather pad on my Parker DH 28 awhile back and I am very pleased.

We would certainly like to see a picture of that pad. By the way, my friend on the Eastern Shore of Maryland taught me to use wooden dowels instead of rubber plugs to make the leather plugs for leather covered pads. They are easier to shape and cut to fit, and they put up with the abuse of fitting the leather cover much better than the rubber plugs. He made a leather faced Silver's pad with covered plugs on a John Oberlies Springfield that is a masterpiece.

Dave, I am unfamiliar with this pad but if it is anything like a Pachmayr Decelerator it would probably work ok. I would not recommend covering a pad as soft as a Limbsaver. That would be, IMO, like trying to cover bubble gum.

Doug did a pad for me recently and it came out great.

Bill

I wonder if anyone has tried gluing on with the old style Instrument makers glue?...the stuff that comes in little pellets that you have to double boil..made from Hooves n Hides (or Elbows n A Holes)..its got a fair whiff to it!
I am sure the old time makers used the same stuff, probably the best they had at that time.
I play the fiddle ,& just had my go to fiddle worked on, but my mate got that top off with judicial use of heat n steam in short order...also the neck had to come off, no big deal to him...he did his stuff & glued her up just lovely with that Hide glue.
You have to use a glue that you can undo to repair or your screwed nexttime work is needed
But i think this type of glue might need to soak into both pieces to work, the stock side would be fine being porous, but Im not sure how it would stick to the shiny, smooth plastic pad base?
I think it might not do so well, but its a big surface area, with mostly just recoil squeezing the glue joint together, not any pulling apart force..Scuff it up some , but not near the edge, I guess?
cheers
franc