If you do not mind an O/T question,Got one that I’m working on, just finding it hard to put as much time as I need to into it. Should have finished it the first week I got it.
Label forearm repair.
It was cracked in half and glued back together.
The plan is to inlay wood patches to stabilize it and make it look like an old repair.
Then fix the front.
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The Lebel's drilled out magazine obviously makes them a bit more difficult to patch, is that the reason that you have substantial wood replacement or is it to resemble the style that the French armorers used. Second, did you use a dremel to rout out the repair area or something more like a drill press/router/mill? If you used a dremel, I am impressed by your hand control by not getting too close to the magazine tube in the forestock in depth.