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Reply #60 - Sep 26th, 2026 at 6:09pm
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Excellent repair Bob.
  
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Reply #61 - Today at 2:45pm
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Jack, I just saw this picture of a repaired Ballard stock and it reminded me of your damaged stock. How is it going? Did you get your stock repaired?
  
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Reply #62 - Today at 4:06pm
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Last I heard it had been used as kindling when the wood stove supply got low.
  
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Reply #63 - Today at 4:18pm
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That is one Homer Simpson repair.
  
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Reply #64 - Today at 4:24pm
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Needs stain for sure...

Jack, I have wood. In case you need some.
  
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Reply #65 - Today at 4:34pm
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I recently did a repair to a fella's Hopkins & Allen medium frame single shot stock. A very early and very unusual stock on it that was factory done, but looked like stocks we see on old muzzleloaders. Had the same finish of striped wood that was very dark, but when I sanded it the stocks were a very light maple. I already had the repair done, so I had to sand the repair to fit, and then tried numerous stains to try to darken the maple to match again. I finally got out some old wood dyes I have for elevator cab repairs and was able to finally get it matched up. A real PITA to do, but he was very happy.
  
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Reply #66 - Today at 5:54pm
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marlinguy wrote Today at 4:34pm:
I recently did a repair to a fella's Hopkins & Allen medium frame single shot stock. A very early and very unusual stock on it that was factory done, but looked like stocks we see on old muzzleloaders. Had the same finish of striped wood that was very dark, but when I sanded it the stocks were a very light maple. I already had the repair done, so I had to sand the repair to fit, and then tried numerous stains to try to darken the maple to match again. I finally got out some old wood dyes I have for elevator cab repairs and was able to finally get it matched up. A real PITA to do, but he was very happy.



You can get maple really dark with a combination of iron nitrate and dyes, nearly black if not careful. Stain just seems to lay on top.
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Re: Stock repair
Reply #67 - Today at 6:01pm
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Lot of good advise here Jack. You just keep working on it. You'll get it looking good eventually.
  
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