Smith stock repair advice needed

[edrutecki]

Any ideas how to repair this? Seems to be a pretty common problem.

I did manage to find the missing chips.

[henrymstr]

U must have a small gap between the wood and metal. 1/16 or so. It splits upon closing after repeated use. The wood must make contact up inside not on the outside colar piece. Even reinforced using glass bedding on the inside neck. Common problem not many understand. Good luck.

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[edrutecki]

U must have a small gap between the wood and metal. 1/16 or so. It splits upon closing after repeated use. The wood must make contact up inside not on the outside colar piece. Even reinforced using glass bedding on the inside neck. Common problem not many understand. Good luck.

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The master plan was to bed the collar to the wood. I'm just not sure what the best way to rebond the chip back on to the stock would be. I was thinking of using acraglas, but have also heard that superglue will work as well as running two toothpick like dowels thru the repaired chips. As you mentioned, I have seen quite a few on the line in the same condition. Thank you for the reply.

[jonk]

It looks like a very shallow spalling of the wood. As such, I'd honestly forget the chips. My experience has been that gluing chips back on usually results in a weak repair that then fractures again. If it were a deeper piece of wood that had sheared off, I'd be with you.

Personally I'd take the metal collar off and file it down so that it was at least 1/8" thick, then glue a piece of walnut in place with epoxy or acraglas. Ideally with a few dowels or splinters made of similar wood. Sand it flush. Then bite the bullet, sand the whole stock down, and re-stain.

As such it would be largely un-noticed, but if you just glue them back on, you'll always see the seam.

[John Bly]

Clean all the pieces well with solvent to get rid of oil. Acraglas would be my choice of a repair agent. Properly repaired it will last your lifetime. Be sure to bed the spacer ring to the stock at the same time to even out the stresses on the wood joint.

[edrutecki]

Clean all the pieces well with solvent to get rid of oil. Acraglas would be my choice of a repair agent. Properly repaired it will last your lifetime. Be sure to bed the spacer ring to the stock at the same time to even out the stresses on the wood joint.

Thank you Sir. Your advice is very much appreciated.