Hopeless Stock Repair

[mxlmax]

I hope this post is in the right place. This repair could be used on any wood stock so here goes. I never intended on posting these pictures. I only took them with my cell phone in order to show my friend how his stock was fixed, if in fact it stayed that way! First let me say that the rifle is a Model 1899 Savage from the early 1900's. It is a 30-30 with an octagonal barrel. The stock was split all to he!! and worthless. My friend was asking me if I knew where to get a replacement butt stock for it. I asked him if he would let me play with it as he had nothing to lose. What had happened to the stock was the previous owner shot it with a very loose stock bolt and it split in three places and broke / chipped out the tang area. I did not take a picture before I took it apart (should have) but the damage will be apparent. The first step was to clean the old oil / grease and years of gunk. Purple power to the rescue! Then two trips through the dishwasher (hi-heat, pots and pans and no heated dry cycle) ;-)
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The next step was to see just how bad the cracks were.
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[mxlmax]

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Next was to "glue them back together.
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[mxlmax]

Then add wood to the split Tang area and trim it down.
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[mxlmax]

Next was to inlet for the tang and shape some more.
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[mxlmax]

Then to add strength to the wrist I decided to place two "large" stock repair pins. and finish some more. I didn't want to rely on the glue alone and because the area on the receiver is so small I bedded that to make as much surface area as I could get (don't have a pic of that)
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[mxlmax]

The stock bolt actually runs between the stock repair pins. My friend has been shooting it for two years now and everthing is still tight. I know any collector value is gone but it was a fun project, almost nothing is hopeless!
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[jak]

Nice job !!!!!

[timshufflin]

I'm very curious to see how that holds. It looks very nice though and you did a really handsome job.

[Punch The Clown]

Beautiful repair. I'm a big fan of the 1899's. Super well made rifles. Incredible craftsmanship. I had an 1899 saddle ring carbine, and a couple of takedowns. I wish I never sold them but whatever. Anyway. I had a 1907 Winchester with a similar break but it wasn't from shooting-it was from being stepped on. Nice job.

[melloman]

Looks good to me. Nice workmanship.

[toolman]

Beautiful repair. I'm a big fan of the 1899's. Super well made rifles. Incredible craftsmanship. I had an 1899 saddle ring carbine, and a couple of takedowns. I wish I never sold them but whatever. Anyway. I had a 1907 Winchester with a similar break but it wasn't from shooting-it was from being stepped on. Nice job.

Fan of 1899. Because you where one of the first ones to shoot them. When they came out! LMAO Peace toolman

[cuppednlocked]

Nice work!

[axemurderer]

Great repair, Had something like that on my Marlin 336. Was fixed just like yours, right down to the brass screws.

Mike

[Ductapeman]

I realize this is a necropost, but I need to tell you guys: There is a luthier's (guitarmaker's) supply house called Stewart-McDonald's, www.stewmac.com, which sells superglue in graduated thinnesses, specifically for dealing with green-stick breaks like the one in the OP. Let it soak into the crack and clamp the crap out of it-- it has saved more than one gun stock for me. (Why do Savage 24's always split at the wrist even when they aren't being shot?? This stuff has saved at least four of them--) They carry a bunch of clamps and such for fussy little jobs as well. OBTW, this is my first post here-- figures it's in a dead thread--

[timshufflin]

I realize this is a necropost, but I need to tell you guys: There is a luthier's (guitarmaker's) supply house called Stewart-McDonald's, www.stewmac.com (http://www.stewmac.com), which sells superglue in graduated thinnesses, specifically for dealing with green-stick breaks like the one in the OP. Let it soak into the crack and clamp the crap out of it-- it has saved more than one gun stock for me. (Why do Savage 24's always split at the wrist even when they aren't being shot?? This stuff has saved at least four of them--) They carry a bunch of clamps and such for fussy little jobs as well. OBTW, this is my first post here-- figures it's in a dead thread-- And an interesting post at that.