Houston, we have a problem!

[Mike Brooks]

 

[RC]

that must be "bad character"! that is very very sad! what now?

 

[laffingman67]

:cursing: OH NO!! :cursing:

 

[nchawkeye]

Are you going to try to salvage, or change to a more slender butt plate, and go Hawkin???? :grin:

 

[Roy]

:shocked2:
so whats the plan?

 

[jbullard1]

Sand it, fill it and finish it adds character :thumbsup:
jmho
jerry

 

[Mike Brooks]

:shocked2:
so whats the plan?

Patches, just like I've seen on alot of Euro guns. Well into the project at the moment.....

 

[Roy]

:thumbsup:

 

[rabjr]

Hope you dewormed it first! :shocked2:

 

[Stophel]

Patches? We don' need no steenking patches!

Old German guns will often have patches in the butt...generally for knot holes.

 

[tom hargrove]

call it custom antiqued

 

[rich pierce]

I hope you got a good deal on that one. I'm sure the patches will look fine and just "right". A friend has an early original American rifle with a huge patch of the entire toe. Seems the stock blank split or something so the maker just added a big chunk of wood, affixed to the lower part of the stock with big dowels running all the way out the top of the comb.

 

[Mulebrain]

Everybody needs to eat :grin: Just sucks when they are eating your stuff!

 

[George Holton]

leave them alone. stain real dark and useglass bedding dyed to match the stain.

 

[50cal.cliff]

Where they live? If so better start checking everything! :shocked2:
If they weren't live and they haven't destroyed structural intergurityof the stock. I'd fill it and tell them look at the character of this piece I selected for your stock! :wink:

 

[RiverRat]

I would just tell them that you won't charge them for the worm holes!

 

[Elnathan]

You probably already know this, but the original Austrian rifle Eric Kettenburg has up on his website shows patches fixing exactly that problem in exactly that place. Is that a piece of European Walnut?

Tried to link to Eric's site, but the computer wouldn't do it. Don't know if the site is really down, or if my computer is acting strange again - it has been rather erratic today.

 

[Stophel]

EK's new website simply won't work for me. It's REALLY slow to load. So much so that it basically doesn't load at all. I don't know if it's because he is using Mac or what. I come across a lot of pages that are slow for me to load, but so far, few as bad as this. :hmm:

 

[dry ball john]

:hatsoff: I agree with Jerry, Find like wood and make some saw dust/glue then fill(make sure all the critters are dead first) sand and stain-- I really believe this project can be salvaged
DBJ

 

[Many Klatch]

I built a gun for myself that had wood with wormholes in it. I got the wood cheap so I went with it, but then I knew the wood had the holes before I started and I wasn't trying to sell this to anyone. The gun's name is Arrakis (named after the planet in the book "Dune" with all the huge worm.

I filled the holes with epoxy and sanding dust. It adds character, and hardly anybody notices anymore after 25 years of patina.

Many Klatch