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I had this nice WRA stock in for repairs.:sos:It was broken at the recoil plate and needed to be fixed. At first I thought it was going to need a threaded pin to make it a shooter stock. When I had it in hand I decided to not put in the pin. It turned out pretty nice.:)
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Nice job on that one, Frank. :cheers: - Bob
disappeared, well done. was the stock in 2 peices? or just a crack?
It was just a bad crack.....Frank
Result as expected :thup:
Cracked right on that big curl of grain.
Made me think about how nice the workmanship was on the stocks when being made for WWII. How Knots and Sapwood area's were cleaned out and patched over to save a stock so it rolled down the line. The Dutchman patch that once stained and aged was never noticed until our modern day hands stripped the finish. So many similar stocks that went thru field and depot repair where there just wasn't time for a repair like Frank just did that ended up with the ugly A$$ threaded brass pins. Really a shame.
So for my interest is this cracking of the stock due to the recoil surfaces of the rifle becoming compressed over the years and constant use so that the rear action tang moves rearward and starts impacting the stock causing that fracture.
You see that type of chipping directly behind the action tang on some 303's where the butt is not correctly fitted and the wrist socket starts to impact the end grain at the fitment point which leads to the wood grains chipping off.
TIA
painter got it right. Cracked on the big curl of grain. It also had the wrong recoil plate, that may have caused the crack. The glue will be stronger than when it was original. These kinds of repairs do take time, field and depot repairs did not have that kind of time, as a result the pins. It should be a good shooter stock now. :cheers:
Very nice repair job. Do you use polyurethane glue?
I always found the first repair was the most important. If a guy used sub standard stuff to repair it always showed. Unless you could clean it out, care makes it about invisible. Like this one...