jwamplerusa
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Listen to Gunny, and get on YouTube and go to the Anvil channel and watch some of his stock repair videos.
I've fixed a couple things with Gorilla Glue but for wood, I like actual wood glue. Gorilla makes a wood glue that seems to be pretty good. There are a couple other options for clamping a fix like that. A large enough hose clamp(s) would fit on and could be tightened down to squeeze the break really tightly. I've used that to reglue scarf joint on guitar necks. Cut a piece of bicycle innertube to protect the wood, slip the clamp(s) on over the innertube and wrench em down for an hour. They work great on the rounded back of the neck and you can use a clamping caul. I have a few pieces of wood closet rod cut in half that act as perfect semi-circle cauls. The hose clamp really gets a solid purchase.If I were set on using glue I would use gorilla glue. I have had a couple of glue joints fail over the years but never one with gorilla glue and it's waterproof to boot. How to firmly clamp it firmly is the main problem but Ivy MIke has a solution with the long wood screw. If it were mine I would use a slow curing epoxy made by Devcon. I've glued a lot of things over the years with it and nothing has come apart yet.
It’s repairable but will show a little. Stay away from wood glues. They dry to brittle and will not hold up to recoil.
I’ve posted on how to make these types of repairs and have done very many over the years.
It’s a repair that I wouldn’t mind doing, but I have to many things going on right now. If you would like me to repair it, give me a couple of months and I should be free.
That’s a beautiful stock. I would be sick. It will end up well enough I’m sure.
It was put together with two small metal pins (1/16th or 1/32nd) and glue a couple of years before I bought it