Fox Collectors

hello all,
no pics as of yet- apologies
my fox has been cracked at the tang and around the pistol grip for years and lately i ahve been shooting ot more than normal. last week at a boxing day family shoot (yes am in Canada) a SxS afficianado noticed that the "cheeks" of the stock were pulling away from the receiver where the receiver normally makes contact with the stock.
i presume this is what prompts such things as a through bolt on the stock at this point............
1. is any one aware of a repair method that is either invisible or at least much more tolerable to the eye than a through bolt?
2. where would i find information ong how to remove the stock from the receiver to take a look at the extent of the damage?
3. how is it that the wood is clearly pulling away from the back face of the receiver yet the crack on the pistol grip is not expanding?

again, apologies for no photo's as words are poor in a post such as this. if any one has some ideas or would really like some photo's i can re-aquaint myself with the process of making photo's appear on these posts........

thank you in advance.

jsd.

oh!! my gun is a "mix and match" sterlingworth that members on this forum identified the receiver as being of 1923 vintage and the barrels to be circa 1913.
the fella at the range that pointed out the problem told me in his very heavy yorkshire accent that "given the way the gun fits you and given that there seems to have been something custom done to the chokes and that it is the nicest dogs breakfast of a stirlingworth that i have ever seen; i should think it would be worth reparing!"

From your description, it sounds like the webbing has cracked ... Had the same on an A Grade that I purchased a few years ago. I sent the gun to Doug Carpenter and the repair was a success.


Try the following link or do a search on my login name "David D" on the Shotgun World forum and you will see some pictures of the repair. Good luck with your Fox repair.

http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtop ... 8&start=20

Regards, Dave D.

thank you for the courtesy of a response Mr. David D!
the gunstock Co. used a method that I came across after posting my question here- it was on a Parker website. i guess that Parker's have issues that are of a similar nature to what we are talking about here. please check out this link:
http://parkerguns.org/forums/showthread.php?t=517
the "staple" that your gun smith use is massive relative to the pin that the Parker repairman used, but a similar principle.

i still have not produced any pictures, however, is did make a large post a while back for the sake of asking for help in identifying the gun. i got a lot of help from the fox aficionado's.
http://foxcollectors.com/My%20Forum/php ... f=2&t=4765

so you can see tha the gun is a cobbled together "mix and match' sterlingworth that does not even have a proper forearm on it. i bought it sight unseen on the internet, and i did not think that one could mix up a gun so i never thought to ask about matching serial no's and the forearm was simply a 'surprise'. so i bought a gun that upon arrival was immediately worth about 1/2 of what i had paid. and now that the thing is cracking up it is now worth very little on the market. i just like the darned thing so much that i feel i have nothing to loose in attempting this style of repair myself, if I can not find a gunsmith who will work with it.
i will continue the search for a gunsmith that has some experience e with this and keep you and the others that have viewed the thread posted as i think that this is a problem that happens a little too often (based on the number of lovely old SxS's with rude through bolts in the stock cheeks that i see), and if a worthwhile methodology of repair is found, then spread out "there" via the internet then, hoorah! the net will have served it's purpose.
happy new years and good shooting !!
jsd