I'm not much of a wheel gun guy, so pardon me if this is an easy fix. This revolver (an older Astra .38) fell about a foot onto the floor, and caused the hammer to pop out. Can it be fixed easily, and how?
I used to fix mangled / split / even halved stocks all the time and make them look just like new. This is a relatively easy repair, it can be filled with wood epoxy and then color and grain matched so as to appear nothing ever happened.
Not to mention, the stock is from a really beautiful piece of walnut, and the grain is mesmerizing (wood nerd here). It was full of scratches, dings, scrapes, gouges, etc. So I went ahead and sanded the whole thing down and refinished the whole stock back to original (or as close to it as I...
Here's another broken stock I managed to give a new life to. It's a Weatherby, walnut stock. When I picked this one up, it was broken in half, and not a clean break at all. In fact, there was a huge amount of missing wood. After some time in the clamps, some walnut epoxy and creative...
Acraglass is an epoxy, and should be fine to do the lion's share of the filling for this crack. There are great wood putties on the market that you can use to finish it off, all of which can be stained and grain matched to make the repair disappear. I've used Famowood, and Mohawk makes some...
I just completed a repair on a Sako stock that was almost exactly the same break as this. Check out my recent pics of the repair:
http://www.theoutdoorstrader.com/threads/584349-Stock-snapped-in-2-or-was-it
I did this for a fella here on ODT, wound up trading the repair for a little something I needed. Question: Is there a market for stock repair? Something that I may be able to make a little side money on? My full time gig is building furniture, so I've got all the tooling and skills...just...
I regularly use Titebond II -- I find it bites into the grain very effectively. I've tried to break apart glue joints after setting up, only to have the surrounding wood split instead. I use it on all my furniture and cabinetry. For filler, I used an epoxy. I then sanded it and matched the...
Pics of a stock I brought back to life. As I understood it, this was broken during shipping, and almost deemed a goner. You wouldn't guess from the after pics that this was almost firewood.