This is a Marlin glenfield 15 that is my next fixer upper. I'm going to strip and refinish the wood. If you look next to the butt plate you can see a small chip in the wood. About a 1/4 in. wide and about 32nd deep. I'm thinking that if I sand it out it will mess up the fit with the butt plate. Butt plate would be wide in that area. Ideas on how to do that? A butt plate that doesn't fit proper just messes up the whole gun to me.
Find a piece of wood that is the same as the stock.
Sand the piece of wood and save the dust.
Mix the dust with epoxy and and fill the chip.
Sand the chipped area smooth just enough the smooth out the chip.
A smidge of plastic wood, sand to fit. You could also glue a small piece of like wood in the space and sand to fit. Or just leave this love spot as it is. There are plenty of youtube showing how to repair it.
If it's only a 32nd deep just sand it down. You leave the plastic butt plate in position and sand that entire side mostly toward the chip. That's how they do it at the factory when fitting stock to butt plate. You sand right over the butt plate to make them match.
I use same dust as stock mixed very thick. Push it into place and let dry then sand to shape. I use a wood glue not epoxy. Seems to take stains and oils. Hide
dings in the sands of time.
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