your inlays look great!.
what you've done there is about as good as can be done with that type of crack as the flaw will contiueally move open and closed with humidity changes. the only improvement i can think of might be to deeply let in and bed a steel rod in bedding compond under the strap, just to insure some strength to the joint.
i personally hate to see the big plates or wraps of leather on a stock as a repair...that said, we all know that those kinds of repairs were done on working guns and looks didn't mean much to the people that used the guns at the time... what you've done there is tasteful and as inconspicuous as possible. unfortunately, as i mentioned earlier, that particular piece of wood, with that flaw, should have been nixxed as a stock blank in the first place. now you have to deal with what you have...but it looks like you've done as good as can be done! :thumbsup:
what you've done there is about as good as can be done with that type of crack as the flaw will contiueally move open and closed with humidity changes. the only improvement i can think of might be to deeply let in and bed a steel rod in bedding compond under the strap, just to insure some strength to the joint.
i personally hate to see the big plates or wraps of leather on a stock as a repair...that said, we all know that those kinds of repairs were done on working guns and looks didn't mean much to the people that used the guns at the time... what you've done there is tasteful and as inconspicuous as possible. unfortunately, as i mentioned earlier, that particular piece of wood, with that flaw, should have been nixxed as a stock blank in the first place. now you have to deal with what you have...but it looks like you've done as good as can be done! :thumbsup:
