Bark inclusion ideas

[James Kibler]

Two choices. Fill it with epoxy or CA glue or fill it with wood. If you choose to fill it, probably the easiest is the dark brown CA glue. Just put on spray with accelerator and sand off smooth. This is best for small defects. Yours looks to be an okay size to fill. Usually this looks very good when finished.

Option two is to fill with wood. This is a little more tricky but is a really nice option. The key is to get really nice tight joints along the patch. Regular wood glue will blend in the best.

 

[rich pierce]

Original Lancaster or York smooth rifle. Big knot the maker didn’t worry about.

 

[Texcl2]

I’ve seen that gun on the other site, pretty big knot lol. Have any of yall seen filled knots (other than wood plugs) on original guns?

 

[ChuckJonesWagon]

Larry Potterfield can show you a way

 

[Sagebrush]

I think I'd fill it with an epoxy/coffee-ground matrix. Once the ash is treated with iron nitrate and finished off, it'll look good.

 

[Texcl2]

I have wood flour on hand from building boats along with different dyes for epoxy, I could make a glue with it and one of my high quality epoxies maybe adding black dye into it to darken it (wood flour wets out dark brown naturally).The problem is I don’t really know what color to match until I apply the iron n and heat it. I may do it so it looks like the wood knot is still intact by leaving the bark edges. I don’t have any brown ca but might get some as Jim mentioned it and I bet it would seep into all the nooks and crannies. If I could find an original with a knot filled with a hardening filler I’d feel a lot better about it.

 

[Sagebrush]

The problem is I don’t really know what color to match until I apply the iron n and heat it.

You really won't get an idea on the color until you add your finish. Here's my fowler before I added the oil. (See the above photo after finishing.)

That's two coats of iron nitrate and before the heat gun. When I added heat, the entire stock turned reddish brown.

I started my finish off with a coat of Tried and True Varnish Oil cut 40% with turpentine. I think that's why it's so dark. I let that dry for five days before adding coats of Tried and True.

 

[D Yager]

I would fill it with sanding leftovers and colored epoxy and use some dark stain to make it look like a knot. Just me.

 

[oreclan]

It will definitely be darker and aged.

Given that, of it were mine; I would inlet a "football" ,or "eye" shaped patch of the same type of wood.