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Have a cherry stock with a strait crack across the toe. It is stabilized by the butt plate screw and the toe plate (it hits about halfway down the toe plate.)

Going to sink a screw to stabilize it. Need to glue also…but what glue?

Normally I use Gorilla glue but it’s an expanding glue and I don’t want it to push out of the crack on either side of the stock. (The fracture is about 80% complete, still not totally seperated.)

Suggestions?
 
Have a cherry stock with a strait crack across the toe. It is stabilized by the butt plate screw and the toe plate (it hits about halfway down the toe plate.)

Going to sink a screw to stabilize it. Need to glue also…but what glue?

Normally I use Gorilla glue but it’s an expanding glue and I don’t want it to push out of the crack on either side of the stock. (The fracture is about 80% complete, still not totally seperated.)

Suggestions?
Elmer's Wood Glue! Unless you are going to omit an oil coat of some type and plan to submerge the stock in water (tenngun and I agree), I would not worry about water ruining the bond.
 
Id use a thin viscosity CA glue and you’ll need to spread that crack to get it in there. Itd take a very thin glue to get in there if its cracked 80% through as you say. They do make really thin glues for that, but I dont remember the trade names offhand. I remember titebond sells one, but there are many.
 
Yellow wood glue (aliphatic resin) like Elmer’s and Titebond 2 are stronger than the wood they bond and they are pliable: hence bowyers’ choice.
When repairing an oops on wood that will be stained I’ll mix a little burnt umber paint tint in the Titebond2. A damp rag will clean up excess so the grain takes stain/finish.
Titebond3 is waterproof but very stiff in my experience, you can hear it crack while bending.
I use all the others like epoxy, CA (super glue) etc where applicable but for wood to wood you can’t beat yellow wood glue.
 
Normally I use Gorilla glue but it’s an expanding glue and I don’t want it to push out of the crack on either side of the stock.
I understand that.
Titebond 2 in this use. Properly applied with light position clamping,, the glue will express, but is still water soluble while wet. The expressed glue can be wiped clean with a damp cloth.
Keep an eye on it for the first 1/2 hour or so after clamping and cleaning, too catch/wipe any more that may weep from the dry internal wood grain expansion.
Titebond 2 is water resistant. Titebond 3 is water proof. You don't need water-proof unless you keep your gun's outside in the rain.
 
Have a cherry stock with a strait crack across the toe. It is stabilized by the butt plate screw and the toe plate (it hits about halfway down the toe plate.)

Going to sink a screw to stabilize it. Need to glue also…but what glue?

Normally I use Gorilla glue but it’s an expanding glue and I don’t want it to push out of the crack on either side of the stock. (The fracture is about 80% complete, still not totally seperated.)

Suggestions?
Tightbond II
 
Have a cherry stock with a strait crack across the toe. It is stabilized by the butt plate screw and the toe plate (it hits about halfway down the toe plate.)

Going to sink a screw to stabilize it. Need to glue also…but what glue?

Normally I use Gorilla glue but it’s an expanding glue and I don’t want it to push out of the crack on either side of the stock. (The fracture is about 80% complete, still not totally seperated.)

Suggestions?
In my shop I use the thin super glue on all my projects that for whatever reason developes a crack. It will go down through the crack and never expand it unless you have done something to the crack that violated the mateing surfaces. Done this way the crack can't be seen, it is like it never happened. No screws needed!
 
Have a cherry stock with a strait crack across the toe. It is stabilized by the butt plate screw and the toe plate (it hits about halfway down the toe plate.)

Going to sink a screw to stabilize it. Need to glue also…but what glue?

Normally I use Gorilla glue but it’s an expanding glue and I don’t want it to push out of the crack on either side of the stock. (The fracture is about 80% complete, still not totally seperated.)

Suggestions?
Gorrila glue does have a non-expanding formula.
 

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