SXS cracked stock help.

Riven

Riven

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I have a giuseppe gitti SXS with a cracked wrist that goes half way through.
The crack is tight.
I have tried to force it open and push epoxy into it with no success.

I have considered fully breaking it so I can properly apply some epoxy but I am reluctant go down this route.

I also have access to a vacuum pump and have considered masking off the area and applying a thin slow cure epoxy and using the vacuum to try and pull the resin deep into the crack. It's unorthodox but that's what I have come up with so far.

I'm looking for any professional suggestions on how to repair this crack.

Thanks
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Get some cyanocrylate from Lee Valley. It's very watery.

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A suggestion:

To fix the crack one must first remove the crack and get to clean wood, or you'll leave a weak spot on the inside which will keep advancing.

If the parts are still in their proper relative locations, brace it thoroughly to a piece of scrap wood and run it with great care through (*gasp*) a table saw to replace the closed-and-dirty crack with an open and clean slot.

Now cut a piece of similar-colour hardwood to the thickness and rough profile of the slot. Sand and shape it to fit.

Mix up good epoxy, butter up the slot and filler, insert, let it cure, trim to shape, refinish.
 
If you already tried to fix it with glue and it did not hold, you are finished.
Unless you strip it down and open it up and clean out what ever you used.
Than start from scratch. Can you move the wood, (in and out)?
 
You can remove glue , with steam or hot water, depending on what you used, but you will have to redo the complete stock.
If it is reasonably solid, injecting some hi end super glue may ? work.
Acetone will remove oil. And finish if soaked.

If it is solid ( glued?) I would leave it, till it breaks.
If you did a total refinish, that would blend in, and maybe recut the checkering , if you are into that.
 
If you had not used Epoxy you would have been far better off .Damage is done now.You can try using paint stripper.Epoxy is no good for stock repair as if you clamp the joint tight enough to make the crack invisible you starve the joint of glue.That is why you need to use
cyanoacrylate .It doesn't need glue in the joint as it absorbs in the wood pours and locks the wood back together with out the ugly glue line like other wood glues.The repairs are invisible if done right and as strong as the original wood even with oil present .you need the ultra thin stuff not crazy glue as it is too thick.
 
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