Ugh man!!!! Crack in my Edgun Matador stock
Well I just happen to look at the back of my stock and see a pretty big crack
Now I really don’t know what to do.
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I feel ya. When I got out dremel sanding drum for grip I thought for a sec what if I screwed up. Took a piece of spare wood to make sure how I was going to roll around grip and how dremel felt. Made some practice finger grooves. Then I thought work slow and follow your profile pattern a bit at a time. Piece of cake. I’ll rip into a stock now :-).
Look a lot better. I wiil take the opportunity to round the outside sharp corners slightly when I refinish mine. It looks like you did that too. Just the refinishing process will do it a little. 😉
tust me I was scared as hell to strip the gun and wind up messing up the gun even more…BUT I’m actually pleased that the stock came out as good as it did.
Looks good. I’m partial to darker stain as well.
Ok guys just thought I’d show the final product….
Here is a shot of we’re the “crack” was
And here’s she’s rocking her new hawke sidewinder tac 30
And I added some foam padding to wear my cheek rests..
Don’t ya just love-it when a plan comes together. 😀
Knife
Thank you hoot for the kind words.
It makes me feel good that the work I put into repairing and re-staining the gun catches the eye of some of you….
I really want to extend my thanks to all who helped by leading me in the right direction….you all know having waited over a year for this gun to then have a crack appear with no way to order a new stock would kill my excitement for my new toy…lol… But with the help from great people on this forum, the crack isn’t even visible nor does it even look like there was one….my confidence is restored on my matador and can’t wait to show her to you guys once she’s buffed and assembled…..
More pics to follow… 😎
That crack is history, and the stock looks even better than it did new!
I love that rich dark shade of stain you used.
The location of that crack certainly seems to imply a natural drying process having taken place due to close tolerances with the metal. Doubtful you will ever see it again, especially if you keep the stock reasonably well oiled and in a consistent climate.
Well done!!! Very nice and professional recovery from a bump in the road! I never cease to be amazed at the amount of help and information available on this forum to get us past what would stop most gun owners dead in their tracks!
Regards,
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Yea ill make sure I sand down the inside of the stock before I add the gun back into it….as for the stripper I used something called “zip-strip” made for wood…and I used a “dark walnut” wood finish for the stain…I couldn’t get any of the finish oils you guys mentioned so I read up and a popular finish oil is tung oil….and that’s what I used….the oil is thin so it apply’s very smooth and evenly…
Real nice. Which stripper and stain did you use did you use? Tru-oil or Formby? I like the wood a little darker like that too.
lookin good. just hope you removed a bit of wood from the inside for relief so the tight fitting metal doesn’t crack it again once your makeup is done.
Hey coda I will post pics of what it looks like…I have one pic of what it looked like after stripping the top cost of clear…right now I’m on my 4th coat of oil with wet sanding in between coats…and after I’m done I’m going to run my buffer on it with turtle wax.
In this pic you can see the stock it stripped and the dark areas are where the new stain from the other side ran onto the stripped side.
In this photo the stain was just applied
And after the first coat of oil
This is my current process
Any WIP pictures? I’d like to see the progress. Right after the stripper, each coat, etc. I am thinking of doing it to improve the grain appearance. Are you sanding with 0000 in between coats?
Well yesterday I used a stripper and took off all the varnish from the stock and re did the stock a dark oak color…so now I need to light sand it and then use the oil to seal it…I’ve seen videos were they apply about 10 coats then buff it with car wax….so I’m going to try that
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You are correct coda…I rounded the corners because I don’t really like sharp edges on a gun…and it prevents a a crack from happening if I happen to bang it by accident
Demp every time I removed more of the finish my mind was running what If the stock gets damaged?? What would I do with my edgun..lol