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I was just joking Fox...I have buddy that needs a butt stock for a 1913 L.C.Smith 20 gauge.

Two kinds of L C Smith owners in this world. Those who need a stock for one. And those who will need a stock for one.

Good luck.

Best,
Ted

I'll second that, Ted. A true Southern Gentleman- polite, good listener and very knowledgeable as well.

That would mean he needs a buttstock for the FW frame series- Does he want an original 1913 stock- possibly from a "parts gun" or a later stock blank he can fit-

Re-stocking L.C. Smiths, as well as other sidelock shotguns, is a job calling for a top-rate stocker, not a job for an "rookie" with a few chisels on the bench. I very seldom if ever get buttstocks or forearms for not only Smiths, but other American doubles as well. Good luck!!

An orginal or a repair...it's cracked pretty good...it appears all there.

Any recommendations on a fixer ?

My "Debut" into gunsmithing was near onto 60 years ago. An uncle had an old Belgian hammer double marked W Richards (JABC) with a broken stock. At the time I "Thought" it was my Grandads, so I talked him out of it & decided to make a stock for it. One would be absolutely amazed at just how few Tools I used to make that stock. If I must say so myself, few people ever saw it I did a pretty decent job on it.

Then I found out it wasn't really my Grandad's gun but had actually been bought for my uncle when he was still at home. My Dad had got mixed up on the guns, my Grandads was also a W Richards but had Birmingham proofs. Still not a high-grade gun as such but had been better than the Belgian one. That one had some problems also so I finagled around with my uncle & traded him the one I had restocked back for the other one. A couple of years later he asked me one day if I could identify it if I saw it & I said yes, I could tell it by the stock I had made. It had disappeared & he had a couple of young boys working for him on his farm & though they might have stolen it.

About a year passed & he came by my house one day & told me he had found it. Seems he had gone out one day doing some fencing & carried it with him. While working on the fence he had laid it on the ground between the fence & a small creek & then forgot he had it with him. After lying on that creek bank for about a year it was, of course, a hopeless case.

Point is though when a person is determined enough they can accomplish a lot with little.

Ps; Most of the chisels I used were homemade. At the time my Dad worked for a sporting goods company where they made golf clubs. He brought me a few reamers which they used to ream the holes in the wood heads for the shaft. Making sure I didn't get them hot enough to draw the temper I ground my chisels from these. My outside shaping was mostly done with a drawknife & a rasp, then sandpaper.

Who's the best at this type repair

Cracker Barrel. They repair it by nailing it up on the wall.

That gun isn�t worth the trouble. Of all the folk on this board who need to hear that, I wouldn�t have believed you would have been one of �em.

Best,
Ted

jOe, if there is no oil present in that stock, it can be fixed.
It looks like a break from falling not from shooting all though by the looks of the top lever it has been shot a lot.

How about the dents on the left hand side barrel-breech area and- what are the bores like?-- 1913 era 20 Smith on the FW frame, betcha someone shot newer 2&3/4" hulls in that old "Elsie"-- but I agree, the stock at the wrist and around the lockplates- looks like a fall while hunting, the gun hitting the earth before the gunner did.

I'd try to find a stock for that shotgun, as repairs for those deep cracks in critical section of the wood near the lock plates and top tang look ???? to me--RWTF