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I posted this over at DoubleGinShoppe.com* and thought I'd share this with some the of other home-shop guys here. (the pros are pros cause they can fix mistakes better than us Big Grin )

Johnnie Walker helped me inlet this and we ended up with a gap at the tang. Here's some pics of a sliver of wood added to fill the gap. This can be pretty invisible if the stock surface is well proud of final level when the sliver is added, so the epoxy mess is sanded off - just leaving a very thin black line.

The fix is on the bottom tang


The rectangles line shows the epoxy blackened sliver and the ditdot line shows where the fix line is barely visible.


Photoshopped to jack-up the fix


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Would that be Johnnie Walker Black? If so I know him and he's been 86'ed from this shop! Not off the premises, but from the shop area. Big Grin


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Would that be Johnnie Walker Black?

Matter of fact it was Black, and what a fine blend it is. Crappy apprentice though. Even a worse boss! Smiler
 
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I think there's a couple guys here that could fixit without much notice... if you still have the drops from that stock, use a razor to trim off a strip, and then use a mallet and super glue.


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Yeti, nice fix and it does not surprise me in the least from you. BTW, was that doubleGINshoppe an intended pun? Smiler

One thing you might consider although it probably would not be of any use unless the gap were a bit bigger. I like to use a thicker piece of wood for fixes. One of the reasons is to match the grain direction of the wood. You can get a piece with grain that flows at an angle like that of the bottom of the stock but if you do it thin it will break in a heartbeat. Also if you are careful with the fit of the wood, the black line will disappear and you can end up with it being invisible.

Once the thick piece is set up, you then have to inlet it all over again but imagine you did that anyway even with the thin piece.


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I do think that even the best screw up like that sometimes. I am not even up with the best so I do screw up once in a while, (Rem721 just keep your mouth shut and fingers off the keyboard).

One of the things about this is the ability to recover from the screw up, however way you do it.


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The old saying is "you can tell the ability of the carpender by the way he fixes his mistakes."
Looks good! Bill
 
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Once the thick piece is set up, you then have to inlet it all over again but imagine you did that anyway even with the thin piece.


Exactly the way I did it, but neglected to mention that crucial point in the post. The cliche about do-ers and teachers ain't always correct.

And yes, doubleginshoppe is a pun of my fav site, via John Meeker.
 
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