Replacing a flat buttplate with spurred

[Jack Pesci]

First make sure that you can obtain a spurred buttplate that will fit the wood exactly. if it is undersized then the wood will have to be sanded to fit the plate and then refinished. If it is oversized the buttplate will have to be trimmed and Parker buttplates have a border that will be affected by trimming and will therefore look bad.
Just my 2 cents.

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Jack Pesci

First make sure that you can obtain a spurred buttplate that will fit the wood exactly. if it is undersized then the wood will have to be sanded to fit the plate and then refinished. If it is oversized the buttplate will have to be trimmed and Parker buttplates have a border that will be affected by trimming and will therefore look bad.
Just my 2 cents.

If buttplates are too small, the wood does not HAVE to be sanded. Material can be added to the outside of the plate and then worked back down to avoid working the wood. The wood should not be reworked unless it is new or unless it is being refinished.

With my number 1 plates, which is the most common size that I use in stocking guns, i had ones made that are oversized around the outside to make sure that I would never have an issue with them being undersized when fitting to an original gun.