The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

I'm looking for a selection of "sanding backers" and edge savers (as Larry Potterfield calls them) for when i start to restore my William Powell stock. Google isn't turning anything up so can anyone help?

why are you sanding?

greenshoots

Restoring a stock by sanding?

Interesting.

Any photos?

For general sanding I use cork blocks, lime wood blocks easy to shape and various aluminium sections like T bar for good grip.

The only gun wood I have ever sanded has been on new over size wood that needs fitting/finishing or the wood with kit guns.

I've sanded a stock when restoring before - mostly a fine paper to smooth down the fibres after raising dents using steam. I've also used a coarser paper after chemical stripping to remove all traces of stain and varnish where generations of scuffs and scrapes have worked it into the wood.

I just use offcut wood blocks for the coarse stuff and fingertips for the finer.

The above was done on battered club target rifles rather than nice old guns of course...