I have a friend who has an 1899 (or possibly 1898) Kragicon carbine stock. For the most part it's in overall good condition however, at some point, somebody sawed off about 2 inches or so from the heel of the stock. This obviously prevents the butt plate from mounting correctly but also ruins a rare and expensive carbine stock.

I've repaired stocks before but have only delt with attaching new fore ends to return sporter stocks back to correct rifle length. I've never really given much thought or attempted to repair a shortened heel.

Besides the obvious issue of blending a seam (probably impossible actually) is there any way to actually splice on a new heel from a donor stock? I guess I'd pin and Acra-glass the new heel to the butt stock so it's solid but I'm not sure how to go about cutting the pieces so they'd line up correctly. I guess I'm not sure how I'd measure the pieces / cuts to butt together with minimal sanding and filling (maybe some common datum between the 2 stocks?).

Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might do this? Has anybody ever actually done this repair themselves?

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