Stock repair and refinish

Here are a couple pics of a repair I made to the butt-stock. It had a large damaged section. I milled it out with the milling attachment on my drill press. I fit a piece of walnut to the opening. I then glued it all around and screwed it down with a brass screw, I forget what size but I think it was 5? When I removed the excess wood the screwhead went with it and I was left with the shaft only. I then refinished the stock using the sticky page under the Gunsmithing part of ths forum, "How to do the worlds best oil finish". I still need to fit the recoil pad a bit tighter.


Edit: I forgot to mention that this is to my own shotgun, its a M500 stock going onto an M590A1. I used walnut only because I had small blocks of it already close to the proper dimension. I could have fit a piece of birch, maybe next time I will. The threads of the screw bridge the gap between the two pieces of wood. The glue I used was Titebond II. I used Minwax Antique Oil Finish to finish.

No offense taken rangervoss. I had several small blocks of walnut already very close in dimensions to what I needed. I do have birch on hand also but I would have lost a lost of waste orienting the birch block, to align the grain even somewhat. As well as this was a rush project for me, having bought the gun without a suitable butt-stock, and I wanted to shoot it.

Thanks for the kind words gentleman. Yes I have something similar to the one rcmodel linked, it works but I also set up extra clamps to hold my work if possible. The drill press is a Delta Industrial grade, its much heavier than the average homeowner model. Variable speed, something like 500-200RPM. I will have to look tomorrow at the specifics.