I am working on making my recently
acquired 28 in 28 gauge barells Q1
and Q2. They were purchased at a bankruptcy auction for 35 dollars, now if I could find a 28 gauge Beavertail to go with
the other 2 sets of 28 gauge barells and the
.410 CSMC barells, I would be set. I found a Beavertail forend and mounted it on the splinter iron, but I need to fill the obvious hole where the forend bolt goes to make it look better

Forend bolt? Please explain.

The beavertail forend reinforcing rod Bill.





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See what I have done is I found a Beavertail
wood for a 28 gauge Repro, then I mounted it on a splinter forend iron for a 28 gauge Parker Repro and it works fine but I have the
hole that needs to be filled with something where the beavertail forend reinforcing rod
would go.

now any suggestions? ?

Thanks in advance

You'll never get it to work well..... send it to me and I'll dispose of it for you.:whistle:






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I was thinking ".410" which has no reinforcing rod.

Pat..the "proper" way to fill in the void of your f/e would be to shape some small pcs of walnut similar in color to your f/e and glue them in with attention to grain flow. Make sure the glued in pcs are "proud"..once glued up & cured..shape the proud areas down to match and add oil..done!

If you don't have the tools to shape etc..head to a cabinet shop who can give you a nice sized bag of sawdust..take the sawdust and mix it into a slurry with glue..lay it in..dry it up..dress it down..and add oil.

First suggestion is the right way to do it but for odd shaped voids that you do not want to machine out for a proper pocket..the sawdust slurry works well.

Of course bedding material would work well too (it's basically epoxy)

Sure beats bondo!!

super suggestion , whole lot better
than pieces of Scrap ivory that I thought
about about shaping.
John Garvin in Albany is working on a broken
stock now, so he would have some

Thanks again

Pat, Bill Schearz is in your area and he will do it the correct way. Just ask Asa Kelly. Merry Chrisrmas. Jim

Thanks, I do use Bill Schwartz for a lot of repairs, in fact he fitted the .410 CSMC
barells to the Parker Repro 28 gauge
frame, he is master Craftsman