Stock breakage

[Drew Hause]

Fox Sterlingworth cracked down the middle



David Trevallion sent me this pic of a Fox ready for a staple repair

[Drew Hause]

Lefever

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by Drew Hause

Fox Sterlingworth cracked down the middle



David Trevallion sent me this pic of a Fox ready for a staple repair

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I had never seen the method shown in the second picture but it adds reinforcement in two directions and holds the cheek piece in alignment. I assume the head of the staple is inset flush with the front of the web. It would only work with no center inlet.

When I find a stock like that, I generally slice a piece out of the center and insert a shim of hardwood with epoxy, followed by some sort cross pin. A gap of that size should not be simply filled with adhesive or epoxy. They have little strength without some sort of matrix filler, which is the source of strength in that kind of composite. Sometimes, a layup of epoxy saturated Kevlar biaxial woven tape is the best. Bonding the wood and with immense shear strength. Filling the crack that way and then bedding the center of the stock with the same material should give a reinforcement that would never let go.

[Drew Hause]

We had a saying at the SOM that 'WNL' didn't mean 'Within Normal Limits' but 'We Never Looked' Never looking means all those cracks are only going to worsen.

These are all David's images and unfortunately small size

Drilling the holes for the staple in the Fox stock



Holes



Staple in place and (I think) acragel



This is a Parker post-staple with a wood cover glued in place