I hear Tenkara fly rigs are fine indeed.
I have had a rough discovery on my Lewis. I stripped the varnish off the funrniture and am not happy. The varnish was dark, I never suspected any issues, but upon stripping the butt stock I now have a new challenge on my hands. There is a chip at least an inch long right above the right hammer. It had been filled in with glue and sawdust! There are at least three hairline cracks right up by the action in the thin inletted sections on both sides! And, there are scrape marks (almost like random carving marks) all around the last three or four inches of the rear of the stock. Then as icing on the cake, the oil soaking is extensive. No fun.
The front splinter stock seems fine but it too has a bit of oil soaking, but looks to be removable.
This project is growing rather large...
I think I might be in the market for a new stock, we will see. I have epoxied missing chips on to other gun stocks but this missing chip is in such a delicate an thin part of the stock. I have also injected epoxy into hairline cracks always with success, so that part may be OK. I have also drawn oil out of stocks, so that part might be doable but there is a lot of oil! I have already done three or four acetone soaks and the oil is still there... But that missing chip. I think that is a tough nut. I don't know if even a reinforced and epoxied new piece of wood will be strong enough. I will post pictures soon.
Any tips on this would as usual in this thread, be very much appreciated.
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