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This English stock has been shortened but lost it's pad. I sanded off the white line thinking I might need to stop and decide what are my options.At first I thought horn but I think I need a little length.Maybe an inch but I would like to save the widows peak. What would you do... I'm simi cheap.I called one guy and he wants $450 for a leather pad which seems expensive to me. I think I like those orange English pads.
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Clean out the recess and fill it with black Acraglass.
A leather covered pad is very classy for a nice doublegun and I have seen them done for less.... but not a lot less. An orange period pad is nice but we see so many of them that have not been finished after installation and they need to have the sharp edges rounded and contoured and finally polished. A half-completed period pad is ugly and detracts from an otherwise nice gun.
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The 1" Galazan-Silvers has a spur, I believe the original Silvers did also. My opinion the best choice.
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Damnit, Monty! Let's see if I've got this right--you'll gladly sell someone a $50,000 piece of jewelry and yet won't bust for a professional pad job.....am I missing something here? That Tolley deserves a little pampering. And whatever you do don't fill the widows peak with accraglass or anything sticky. Someone in the future might want to put a proper pad on it.
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you could add a piece of the same type material.
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John Like the deal I got on the gun I'd like to stay on the south side of the value.The black strip that's on there I think has been glued . I'm not sure how I'm going to get that off without damaging the stock.I thought I might sand it off but it is not straight it has a curve to it. [img:center]  [/img]
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Monty, try some heat to loosen it. A hair dryer might be enough. Most glues soften at 200 or so degrees.
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Jewler, there are many ways to accomplish your goal. Several of them have been suggested. Using heat to remove the buttplate is a good idea. I have used a butcher knife with a single beveled edge after heating the pad to help separate wood from plate. The beveled side is away from the stock and I GENTLY apply pressure in different spots to not break the plate.
Using the pad supplied by Mark Beasland is another. I have used those pads for leather covered pads and they are great. One may make a widow's peak to add to another pad to fill in a spot left vacant by another owner and then leather cover the entire thing. There are others who do leather covered pads (members of the ACGG for example) for less than the $460 you mentioned. As an example: Dennis Potter who posts on this board.
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I ordered the Mark borne again pad. It is 5 3/4 in long which the others I have looked at weren't that long. Thanks for the hair dryer idea I'll try that. I just didn't want to start jack hammering on it. I can fit a piece and put on a pad.Also it looks like it had those big fat screws that usually hold the english pad on that were gone.Where do I get those ?
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