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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => The Shop => : kiwi April 17, 2010, 05:01:46 PM
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Gone to cock yer gun and had it fall on the ground
at yer feet in 2 bits....Yer sort of wonder where it
went for a second....
This happeded a while back..so it got put away into
the get round to box...well I finaly got around to it
but thought it would be a good stock to have a go
at reshapeing......I like the way timmy puts sharp
edges on the cheek peices on his stocks ..so thought
that would be a good place to start...
And what a crappy bit of wood..cracks everywhere
the more I sanded the more cracks & filler showed up...
so start screwing...lucky its only a crappy Stirling...
any ways So far..
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Boy Peter !!!!!!
That can sure ruin your day at the range !
But your doing some nice work on her !!!
Next,,, a custom stock !!! lol
Bill
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Peter.... thinks happens... to take the best of you WHEN YOU CAN DO IT!!!
IT IS GETTING NICER THAT NEW STOCK STLYLE!!!
/GERALD
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I recently acquired a TC G2 with grips that looked like Great wood. I thought I'd reshape the grip, and found that some of that Great appearance was in the finish. I've been working on stocks for 40 years, so I am familiar with how to do them. the result does not look as good, but It sure fits my shooting hand, so this "oh foot" moment turned into a " Wow--look at this" moment. Keep at it. The result is the prize--not the Oops.
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Dang, Kiwi, I can't believe that exquisite high grade stock broke like that! Chinese by any chance? That Chou wood, if it is like what they put on their rimfires, can be pretty soft and prone to cracking. As to fillers, I like what one old British writer said about a fellow who had to have a Best Quality shotgun stock refinished and complained that it had some filler in it. To quote from memory, "When you are dealing with highly figured wood, you naturally get a lot of knots and voids. It's inescapable. What worry when the master gunsmith repairs and makes them invisible in the finished product?" Voids are par for the course with many Chinese stocks. What you don't see, generally, won't hurt you. Of course, cracks through the wrist are another matter.
BTW, what's the Philips head screw for in the comb? Holding another crack shut?
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That Banana Wood just doesn't hold up does it.