Interesting SG stock

[frankderrico]

I've been redoing an SG stock and found a interesting repair. I think it was done at the manufaturer. It has a sort of splice in the butt. It actually has two splices that from the rear look like a cross, right in the but plate hole. I'm not sure why or how they did it, but they wanted to save it from being thrown out. There is also a repair patch in the bridge, very neatly done. Happy 4th. everybody.....Frank
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[frankderrico]

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I had my wife take some better pics. I need some lessons in photography.
Looks like the SG stamp bounced....Frank

[painter777]

Robert Irwin was a family run furniture business.
Wood repairs and patches were a common part of production and factored in to the actual labor time in making a stock.
Filling knot holes and sap wood...etc was acceptable as long as it didn't effect a structural area.

The stock on the left is a RSG made for S'G'. A Type II.
Even before refinishing you can see the patch on the right side of the pistol grip. There's also one, up to the right of the recoil plate area.
These are factory repairs.

BTW,
The stock on the right is the one marked RSG with the I in the slingwell and Inland CC on it. It is also a Type II.

[Bill Hollinger]

Charlie, I believe yours is called a Dutchman repair. There is a note in War baby about the wood shortage and how stocks were pieced together for a very short time. I don't have WB in front of me to verify the maker that did this though. Fun stuff fellas!!!

[Bruce McAskill]

Most of the makers had to try and reclaim stocks that had been rejected because of the walnut shortage that never really was. Once the rejected stocks were used up the makers then went on to use other woods like cherry and then birch till the walnut started to become available again. But the people who worked on the rejected stock were craftsmen for sure. I have not yet seen an ugly repair on a WW2 stock. Very precise fitting of the wood into the stock and some of them are very hard to see.

[frankderrico]

Charlie, I never saw the splices in this stock until after it dried from the
bleaching. Thanks for putting me on to it.
Do you know what kind of glue they used?.....Frank

Bruce, craftsmen for sure, repairs like these are an art.....Frank