flatcreek
40 Cal
What crawled up your butt and your assuming the op has no talent.
Filler for oversized trigger guard inlet
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That looks like hell.
I'm no master gun builder, I'm a hobby woodworker and just starting to dip my toe into gun building. That said I've done enough furniture repair to be able to confidentiality weigh in on this.
I know that epoxy, and PVA/sawdust will look like **** because of the lack of wood grain, and matching stain will be near impossible. Inlaying a matching piece of walnut isn't impossible, but requires a LOT of skill to look good, even then it will be almost guaranteed to be noticable. A truly invisible repair could be made by planing the whole forearm down to the level of the inlet, or at least enough for a thick veneer, and glue on a matching color and grain orientation of similar walnut and refinishing. I think that's nuts to be honest unless this rifle has some sentimental value and needs to look perfect.
IMHO the best option is the one suggested by Jim because it's a very low skill level to cut the front of the guard flat, line up a matching brass piece, and butt the 2 together with silver solder. It takes a plumbers torch, some silver solder, flux, a flat and round file, and some sandpaper. The most difficult part of doing that is figuring out how to hold the parts in alignment while torching them. If it's messed up it can be done again and again until right. Worst case, a new trigger guard is what $25?
Sometimes being a master means knowing that some things that seem simple are actually incredibly difficult and knowing that some things that seem difficult are actually quite simple
Edit: I'll go even further and tell you exactly how I would do it. I'd square off the front of the trigger guard, get a scrap of brass, file both to fit each other tightly.
Get a thin steel backer, like a hacksaw blade, and clamp both parts to the backer. Flux with borax, heat it and drop a small sliver of silver onto the gap. Let it cool and file to shape.
I know that epoxy, and PVA/sawdust will look like **** because of the lack of wood grain, and matching stain will be near impossible. Inlaying a matching piece of walnut isn't impossible, but requires a LOT of skill to look good, even then it will be almost guaranteed to be noticable. A truly invisible repair could be made by planing the whole forearm down to the level of the inlet, or at least enough for a thick veneer, and glue on a matching color and grain orientation of similar walnut and refinishing. I think that's nuts to be honest unless this rifle has some sentimental value and needs to look perfect.
IMHO the best option is the one suggested by Jim because it's a very low skill level to cut the front of the guard flat, line up a matching brass piece, and butt the 2 together with silver solder. It takes a plumbers torch, some silver solder, flux, a flat and round file, and some sandpaper. The most difficult part of doing that is figuring out how to hold the parts in alignment while torching them. If it's messed up it can be done again and again until right. Worst case, a new trigger guard is what $25?
Sometimes being a master means knowing that some things that seem simple are actually incredibly difficult and knowing that some things that seem difficult are actually quite simple
Edit: I'll go even further and tell you exactly how I would do it. I'd square off the front of the trigger guard, get a scrap of brass, file both to fit each other tightly.
Get a thin steel backer, like a hacksaw blade, and clamp both parts to the backer. Flux with borax, heat it and drop a small sliver of silver onto the gap. Let it cool and file to shape.
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That's not what I said and not what I meant or implied, and what crawled up your butt to assume that was my meaning and intent? You're way out of line. I think you're the one that has something already stuck up their butt to post something like that about another member. Which I notice you're not even a SUPPORTING MEMBER. So please just keep such comments to yourself. Or else put your money where your mouth is.
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flatcreek
40 Cal
Thank You
You're welcome.
I would stain a piece of door shim stock and glue in place.
Then blend it in.
Function over Fashion.
Then blend it in.
Function over Fashion.
That's what I was getting at. Even if tongue-in-cheek. Thank you.
My spontaneous idea:
I would find an 1800's penny. Cut and shape to fit.
I would find an 1800's penny. Cut and shape to fit.
I like that idea. Very original.
Makes the result a unique creation. A one-of-a-kind belonging to and expressing the creativity of the creator.
As I tried to express earlier in this thread: if you can transform a mistake into not only being functional but standing out to like it it was intentional, then it's no longer a mistake, it's a decoration.
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Hey Wis, Sometimes we care too much! If ya know what I mean. After all it,s a tool subjected to wear and tear. For me dings and dents are Memories.That's what I was getting at. Even if tongue-in-cheek. Thank you.
Like having a classic car under a tarp all of the time...
I would cut off the tail of the original guard which is already inletted and silver solder/braze it to the new guard. The result would be seamless to the eye.
That's probably the best idea, and sounds similar to the solution Jim was proposing. I just think it's a solution that takes some knowledge, expertise, proper tools and materials to accomplish, which without some confirmation from the OP that it works for him, might not be the most appropriate solution for him if not, and so why I don't see any great antipathy toward alternate solutions that might be proposed as alternate solutions need be expressed toward those that proposed them.
Why pull everyone down to the least common denominator? Can’t solder, so not a viable option, so don’t suggest. Some folks are frightened with the thought of using epoxy, so don’t suggest. I guess suggestions for issues such as this need to be limited to Silly Puddy and duct tape? Or maybe rubber bands? Unless a particular ‘builder’ has a fear or aversion to rubber bands. I hear they can be pretty unforgiving to beginners.
Personally, like @James Kibler suggestion to silver braze. If silver brazing is not already in one’s tool box, maybe time to up their game.
