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What do you all like most for stock repairs?

I'm looking at one hairline crack and another large, split off 'chip' along the the grain. Currently planning to use acraglas, pending the input here.

Thanks.

I use several different glues depending on what I am trying to accomplish, the degree of difficulty in hiding the repair and the finish I will use. I really like G-flex for strength in a repair. If you are not using stain, tite-bond does a great job and is easy to hide. I use traditional and the gel form of acraglass, traditional is shiny when finished and can be an issue hiding it. The gel works well and is easy to hide. To get in a crack, I like to heat G-flex with a heat gun. You can do the same with acraglass but the work time is much shorter and heating it decrease your time even more. Show some pics when you finish up.

I do use two Adhesives both are Epoxy resin both from the same manufacturer, my first go to is one that has been around here in Britland for over sixty years and never had a failure this is Araldite standard slow set. It takes all the rush and angst out of a repair that requires Peces of wood fitting in as well as the main repair. Now in the last twenty years Araldite introduced a faster setting crystal clear version which I have found works well on small splits and cracks plus larger stock splinters.

Old School? Yes!

Here are the 'before' photos:

G-flex and hide the repair with pro-custom and some tint would be my call on a break like that.

Those SKB's crack badly if the stock bolt loosens. When the cracks and chips are back in place I would recommend cutting a groove across the grain on the inside just behind those radii of the stock Then epoxy a piece of all thread to help reinforce it in the future.

Steve, do you mean the chempak pro-custom gunstock oil finish for hiding the repair?

(https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/stock-work-finishing/wood-finishes/pro-custom-oil-gunstock-finish-prod5531.aspx?avs%7cManufacturer_1=CHEM-PAK)

Yes indeed, not usually my favorite finish but if you build it up so it is a top of the wood finish you can add color and hide your repairs very well with it. I have not found a better finish for hiding bad breaks, stock extensions etc. I have removed a leather cheek piece for a client, inlet a new piece of wood and hid the whole repair. Same for this Churchill, the client snapped it in half and I glued black in place, strengthened the repair with a carbon fiber rod then used pro-custom and tint to cover the repair.

https://www.gunsinternational.com/g...ck-xxv.cfm?gun_id=102052054&cdn_bp=1

Can anyone compare Titebond II to Titebond III for gunstock repairs? I have both on hand and need to repair a small crack behind the top tang on a gun.

the titebond 3 dries darker and is more waterproof than titebond 2. I would imagine those qualities make t3 more suited for most stock repair work.

Found this on the web: colors of each dry