Yup, those are some repairs! big challenge in hiding those. The right side looks to be off another rifle? Are these stocks hard to come by?
The rifles a rare 1950 dated BSA Airsporter Mk1 Air gun. The stock was made in three parts. Post war austerity meant walnut was hard to come by, so they could cut the wood from small blanks and glue on the sides, quite often these side pieces are beech.
Original stocks rarely come up and frequently require major surgery to repair!
I'm mid way through a lockdown project to rebuild two of these beutifully engineed and very attractive rifles to best possible condition.
The work continues.....
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The rifles a rare 1950 dated BSA Airsporter Mk1 Air gun. The stock was made in three parts. Post war austerity meant walnut was hard to come by, so they could cut the wood from small blanks and glue on the sides, quite often these side pieces are beech. Original stocks rarely come up and frequently require major surgery to repair!
Thank you for the info and insight! What a fantastic project. I need to stop asking questions, now I have yet another rifle on my list to look for.
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I didn't have any a month ago, now I have two under rebuild and two active bids on Mk2 and a late full stocked Stutzen Carbine coming up for auction on Thursday....
Getting a 'tad' out of hand!
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Ref post 12: Quick-grip clamps are quite good and they come in various sizes, makes and price ranges. The one thing that they all have in common is that they can be used one handed.
Cheers F10, I have a few of them and they are useful, but I still find small G clamps the preferred option for rifle stocks due to the fact you can work all around the job at the same time.
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The best thing I have found for clamping stocks is the length of surgical rubber tubing that Brownell sells.. You wrap it around the stock and it can apply huge amounts of pressure but leaves no marks as the pressure is distributed across the surface of the wood..
Absolutely brilliant and much better than parallel type clamps.