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Originally posted by rogue1:
Thanks to you and Chic Worthing for giving me the fortitude and knowledge to rehab a stock which well and truly needed it. I derived immense satisfaction from adding a ’shooter’ to my scattergun options pretty much by my own hands.

The gun is a Sterlingworth 20 ga that had a crack in the wrist (another story) , and as with the old guns, the stock was short and the checkering was well worn but all present. You replied to my query about the checkering and told me what tools to buy and how to bring it back. I did as directed and it worked out very well. I’ve since brought up the checkering on an old “shooter class†L.C. Smith that’s also in rehab.

I wanted to extend the length of pull on the stock without making it look too grotesque and I just didn‘t know how to do it. Your pic sequence (posted elsewhere?) that showed the steps in covering a pad combined with Chic’s narrative on subject, plus a tip or two here and there, encouraged me to epoxy a 1/8†spacer on a 1†pad and cover it. This was then installed with a ¼†spacer between pad and butt so I picked up a bit of l.o.p., and in my biased view, it don’ look bad on an old shooter. It’s obvious but it don’ look bad. I do think however, that the extra 1/8†on the pad surely made it some tougher to cover, especially for a rookie. I have most of a whole pigskin ($35 from Tandy) left over so more leather covering is in my future. I can’t say I look forward to doing my next one but at least my trepidation level will be way down when I do it.

Thanks again to you and Chic. Y’all really helped me do something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time.

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You just know 22WRF is going to want to see a picture.

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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You just know 22WRF is going to want to see a picture.

well.....so would I for that matter.

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I don’t know how to post pics so someone will have to volunteer to do that for me.

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ramrod340. Are you out there