Buying a Rifle on Family Vacation - Another Remington 721

[browningautorifle]

nice clean stock extension work

I appreciate that Bill, I have seen much work by others here and still feel mine looks rudimentary. I have a friend here that's a cabinet maker and gun guy, refused to do the extension for me. He did guide me though and told me to use an epoxy instead of glue so I see a line. Used an existing busted 336 stock that had the same grain. Anyway, I agree that yours is much simpler to use a stock that is ready drop in. I'll bet you can still sell that high comb stock to someone.

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[ssgross]

told me to use an epoxy instead of glue so I see a line

I saw a thread here or somewhere where someone first coated the surfaces of a repair with glue (so to minimize the visible line), then put epoxy in the holes where the internal metal support was. The epoxy held the pieces together very tight, and the glue filled all the microscopic pores at the seam, and blended it all together.

[usabaker]

He did guide me though and told me to use an epoxy instead of glue so I see a line.

Hi Jim, Did you add black tint to the Epoxy? It helps minimize the line. For a repair like that it's nearly impossible to hide the line unless you blend the transition using stains and paints of varying shades to connect the grains. Your repair looks as good if not better then others I have seen Don't know about the "Don't over tighten" I clamp the repair down hard, its the bite into each end of the wood that holds regardless if it's wood glue or epoxy. But that's just the way I was taught.

I ended up buying two different stocks for this Remington, it was hard to see the grain being the stock are raw wood so I keep the one with the most character. I'm looking for a block of Gaboon Ebony to tip the end of the stock much the same way as the one that one it now. I figure if I'm not going to put a factory stock on it, I might as well build it the way I want it.

[browningautorifle]

Did you add black tint to the Epoxy?

No, didn't know about that one. I did tighten well, didn't tell my observer about that.

I ended up buying two different stocks for this Remington

Lookin' forward to seeing the end result.

[baltimoreed]

Kinda pertinent, I had a gifted ‘03 stock that had multiple patches from a po’s repairs that I wanted to use for a rebuild. To get the lighter patches to match I used leather dye on the patch along with multiple coats of Birchwood caseys water based red walnut dye to even it out. Hid them pretty nicely. Not done the build yet.
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