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Hiding repaired cracks in stocks
Morning all, I had to repair a badly damaged walnut stock a few weeks ago, basically a previous poor repair with ebony pegs added.
This was further compromised by Parcel Force who caused further damage during their laughable service....
Looked like they had used it to hammer home fence posts....
Anyway, took it all apart and steadily rebuilt it with wood epoxy resin glue and walnut side grain plugs....
Happy with a strong repair, however I have a few ribbons of epoxy glue showing where previous wood loss made a seamless repair impossible, has anyone a good way of making them less obvious?
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08-03-2020 05:16 AM
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Fiebing's leather dye, the alcohol version, not the water based version, works very well as a wood dye if you want a wood dye. They do it in a good range of colours.
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Originally Posted by
mrclark303
a few ribbons of epoxy glue showing
You DO mean the epoxy? It's like a two tube glue?
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I have always dyed any glue used for stock repair black.. I usually used Acraglas gel as it is designed for gun work and is extremely stable. Grain is black, not brown..
If you have already glued the stock then to some extent the horse has already bolted..!I tend to try and pack any voids with slivers of wood set in resin. My best advice now is to use a scalpel to cut fine lines into the glue and then fill with black dyed adhesive such as Acraglas (which comes with dye packs).. once you have taken the glue lines back to the surface, I would then fill and wax the wood to dull down the joins.
Last edited by bombdoc; 08-03-2020 at 05:32 PM.
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Originally Posted by
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have always dyed any glue used for stock repair black.. I usually used Acraglas gel as it is designed for gun work and is extremely stable. Grain is black, not brown..
Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
Fiebing's leather dye, the alcohol version, not the water based version, works very well as a wood dye if you want a wood dye.
bombdoc and Flying10uk both are spot on, you can use the black leather dye or Brownell's black dye thinned with spirts (to shades of black) with a fine paintbrush to follow the grain across the break, joining them back up. This will blend and will keep the eye from focusing on the break.
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You DO mean the epoxy? It's like a two tube glue?
That's the one Jim, a special two pack that uses wood resins in its makeup...
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Thanks for the advice guys....
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Practise some carving or checkering in that area.
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Originally Posted by
mrclark303
Here's the repair guys, as can be seen, quite the mission.
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?
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Originally Posted by
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Here's the repair
Looks good now...
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