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Eric Krewson:
This stock was pretty dinged up from use, I have found just about every ding will steam out with just a little effort and and an old steam iron. I believe I paid all of $2 for this old iron at a thrift shop, and have used it quite a bit both to steam out dings in stocks that I have refinished as well and tighten the wood around an inletted part that I got too sloppy inletting. Quite often when we inlet a part we compress the wood in the inlet some, a damp wash cloth and my old iron will decompress this wood for a tighter fit.

I was able to remove every dent on this stock but one with my steam iron and a wet washcloth.



I was able to raise this dent a good bit but on close examination I found that there was actually missing wood in the dent. I know how to fill this dent with wood where it will barely show.



I have a lot of random walnut pieces from making tillering gizmos, I will do a few tests first to see if I can get a close match, if not I will take a small piece out of the barrel channel to make the patch. This is a tiny ding, only about 3/16" long but even if the rest of the stock is flawless when I get done this place will stand out like a sore thumb if I don't fix it.

   

Eric Krewson:
I patched the torn place in the stock, didn't come out as invisible as I would have hoped, but I can live with it.

I used a small gouge to remove the damaged wood from the stock and then used the same gouge to cut a patch out of a scrap of walnut and checked the fit before I superglued the patch in place.





My glue lines show too much but this is better than having a hole in the stock. I put a little Tru-oil on the wood to darken it.



 

Pappy:
Looking very good Eric, love watching your work, I don't do much gun work but some of the tips i get from here also works well on self bow and other projects that I do work on. ;) Thanks.
 Pappy

Eric Krewson:
Worked a little more on my TC stock overhaul. I started inletting the wedge pin escutcheons down to the level of the forestock. I will do a final sanding later when I round off the slab sided forestock to match the wood to the brass.

Eric Krewson:
Time to get rid of that oversized butt ugly cheekpiece.

Taking off the front end humps.



Extending the wrist into the buttstock



Removing the excess blocky wood at the rear of the cheekpiece, I used a big rat tail file mostly



Almost shaped to suit me, just a little more refining.

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