Repairing a butt plate

[44caliberkid]

Have an old Stevens double (335) that has a little chunk missing at the bottom of the butt plate.  Seems I've seen some product used, like Bondo, to fill in a missing piece.  Anybody got some good ideas?

[Ozark Tracker]

is the chunk out out the bottom of the stock or along the outer rim of the stock?  I think bondo will not be a pleasing look, i don't think it will take any kind of stain.  also wood filler won't take stain good.  if you could post a picture of it, maybe there is something you could do along the lines of sawing out a section and replacing it and reshaping to your stock.

[Laredo Crockett]

What Ozark said. Bondo will adhere, but it won't accept stain. Best choices I can think of are to get another piece of wood and form to fill the void as close as possible, glue in with Accuragals and form to fit afterletting set for a couple of days. If  you use Accuraglass the two joined pieces will have to have pressure applied to hold them while it dries. Anoother possibility, depending on how large the missing piece is-----see if you can build a dam around where the missing piece used to be using modeling clay, mix up a batch of Accuraglass using the enclosed tint to color it, spoon into the dam, let dry for a couple of days then file, rasp, sand the fill down to match to contour of the stock. You will be able to see either repair. Others with far more knowledge and experience than me will likely have a superior approach.

                                               Crockett

[litl rooster]

  44cal. if it's the buttplate it's self, why don't you order a new one and grind to fit, or replace with recoil pad. Like the others if it's wood I don't believe I would use bondo. I accura glassed a Hawkins stock together and it held Very good. When the new one come in the Dealer couldn't believed it worked.Match the types of wood would be the real trick.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I b'lieve he DID say Buttplate, not stock ...

[Ozark Tracker]

whoops,  my mistake. probaly like litl rooster said look for a replacement,

[Virgil Ray Hality]

Maybe Numrics will have a replacement.

[44caliberkid]

This is the Butt Plate, the plastic buttplate.  Numrich (Gun Parts Corp) doesn't have them anymore.  It is the original and says "Stevens" on it, so I don't want to use a generic replacement.   I was looking at a gunsmithing book once and it had something that you could fill in places with, it may have been epoxy, colored black.
  Steelhorse, I reckon you got an "A" in reading comprehension.

[litl rooster]

   I believe in your case I wood go ahead and put a generic one on. Save the old one. Take to gunshows etc, and scrounge up a replacement. It may take some time to find, in the mean time your shotty will be worthy of use and look good also.

[Hemlock Mike]

I get a number of old top break revolvers with "chipped" grips.  I use tape to form a damn around the missing area.  Mix epoxy with lamp black or charcoal dust till real dark.  Drizzle the goo into the area and wait.  Remove tape and file to fit.  Sometimes you almost can't see the fix.

Mike

[44caliberkid]

Thank you Hemlock Mike, that's exactly the kind of repair I recall seeing in a gunsmith book a long time ago.  The old timers fixed everything.

[Hemlock Mike]

44 kid --

I don't have the old books -- I just make do with what I think will work.

It's already broke -- Just don't scratch the paint 

Mike

[litl rooster]

I get a number of old top break revolvers with "chipped" grips.  I use tape to form a damn around the missing area.  Mix epoxy with lamp black or charcoal dust till real dark.  Drizzle the goo into the area and wait.  Remove tape and file to fit.  Sometimes you almost can't see the fix.

Mike

I  have used this same method to repair Horse's feet. It works and helps untillnew growth in the hoof pushes it out,  I guess what I am saying is should hold in a buttplate fer ever.

[blue drifter]

44 kid
  put the old butt plate on A peice of paper and trace it. then send to dixie gun works. they will match it as close as they can then you can grind the rest off. I have done it with my stevens sxs its not bad.the other thing is you can sell it for, last weeks newspaper and A dime, be willen to come down A dime but no lower!!!!