If you are going to be stupid, you gotta be tough

[Buff1958]

I finished putting together a new Kibler fowler a week or so ago. I pulled it out today to put a coat of wax on it. I leaned it up against my work bench ( it has a notch in it that I didn’t use) turned my back and it fell over. I have a big padded rug but it didn’t help . For a minute I was crushed. After I quit kicking myself I pulled the pins and used a tooth pick to work gorilla clear glue into the split. I clamped it back together and put the pins back in it. At least the crack will be under the ram rod.

 

[Gtrubicon]

I feel your pain, repair looks great though.

 

[russellshaffer]

Don't let it get to you. You will be the only person who knows about that crack unless you tell them.

 

[sghart3578]

Don't sweat it. I would wager that we could fill an encyclopedia if we all confessed our mistakes.

Someday I will tell you the story of my Ruger Vaquero with a missing front sight.

 

[earlwb]

I can feel your pain. But the repair looks good and like you said it is hidden by the ramrod.

 

[SDSmlf]

Not a fan of Gorilla glue for this type of repair, but as long as it worked, great.

 

[WonkyEye]

Not a fan of Gorilla glue for this type of repair, but as long as it worked, great.

Agreed, PVA glue for most long grain that may get occasional wet. Hide for indoor pieces that may need to come apart. I do like gorilla/polyurethane for outdoor projects

 

[Flintandsteel]

Tite bond wood glue .

 

[Rebel bull]

I was told once being a great gun builder just means that you've become an expert at hiding/fixing your mistakes/screw ups LOL don't sweat the little things it wasn't meant to be a safe queen. I sell most of my bench clamps at shoots after some body knocks their prized gun into the dirt!

 

[Gtrubicon]

Those are really neat!

 

[Johnny Too-Tall]

Ahhh heck my first build a TN mt rifle I measured wrong and took out to much wood from butt plate on top edge of stock. . Luckily I was taking a class to do it with local builder. Options move but plat forward 3/8" and lose it on LOP (not option I'm 6'6") or option 2. I used a piece of copper plate and made a spacer. To make it look like it was done on purpose I added a copper band in barrel near muzzle, and drilled holes in trigger guard and filled back in with cooper to make it look like copper rivets. made fake copper rivets in muzzle cap. Then to finish it off added a decent sized cooper star on cheek well after I had a big dent/gouge in wood from where I dropped it placing it in vice. With the dark stain or curly maple and the browned steel the aged cooper really looks like it belongs there. Of course it was all done to help cover up mistakes made. Most people thought I was trying to be creative. Technically I was being creative at hiding ohhh craps.

 

[ChuckJonesWagon]

Fixes? What are those?

 

[Redlemur60]

Fixes? What are those?

 

[Redlemur60]

What?

 

[oldwood]

Your not a genuine craftsman , 'til you learn how to fix your mistakes. Some 35 yrs. ago , a friend got a scratch built Jager rifle from me. He and some friends , were driving deer in the late season Pa. flintlock deer season. The day was very icy , and he said he made it to within feet of the truck and did an upside down aerial flip on the road pavement, landing on the stock of his Jager rifle. He was distressed when he brought m/ler to me for repair of the nearly "ell" shaped wrist A month later I called him to come by and examine his repaired stock. He couldn't believe the stock was fixed , and the repair was near invisible. I got lucky. Once the brown dyed epoxie was applied , the stock wood fibers hinged back into place. Application of a long # 10 drywall screw down through the inside of the wrist from the inside of the barrel tang inlet , again w/ more Epoxie fixed the smashed wrist in place permanently. A refinish job hid the mess from view. Again , I got lucky , and talked to the owner last week , and all is well w/ the Jager stock.

 

[Tenring]

So sorry to hear that.

 

[ChuckJonesWagon]

What?

When I built my Leman, I was going to properly rivet the front cap to the stock. After filing it and getting the nose cap to fit, I began to drill the hole for the rivet. Of course, when the drill bit broke through, it cracked the thin piece of wood that was to hold it to the stock. So, I drilled two small holes, accraglassed in two small pins and fixed the blowout.

Then instead of doing the HC correct rivet, I just accraglassed the piece to the wood. It's been fine since 2018.

 

[longcruise]

You will be the only person who knows about that crack unless you tell them.

Tooooo late for that!

I sympathize. Did the same thing and used SG which worked fine but OTOH I have quite a bit of experience with SG and understand it's nature. If done wrong it can make things worse.

 

[billraby]

My mistakes usually end up on video. But so do the repairs.

 

[oreclan]

I finished putting together a new Kibler fowler a week or so ago. I pulled it out today to put a coat of wax on it. I leaned it up against my work bench ( it has a notch in it that I didn’t use) turned my back and it fell over. I have a big padded rug but it didn’t help . For a minute I was crushed. After I quit kicking myself I pulled the pins and used a tooth pick to work gorilla clear glue into the split. I clamped it back together and put the pins back in it. At least the crack will be under the ram rod.

I would add a brass nose band for extra strength.