sg1 Posted March 22, 2012 Report Share Posted March 22, 2012 (edited) Was given an AYA the other day (serial No: 307**), the action and barrels are fine but it was 'attached' to a badly split stock(and split/previously repaired forend) and previously repaired butt !! After removing the wood I proceeded to repair the 2 large splits at the front of the stock by splitting slightly further and using Epoxy resin to join together again and left clamped up for 2 days until fully cured.A similar method was used on the 2 splits on the forend. Also there were more dinks and dents than I'd dealt with before on a stock repair so the simple solution was to firstly steam out the many minor dents and then rub back down to bare Walnut and then once prepped, have it refinished.(this will be done by a friend of mine who is a cabinet maker/french polisher by trade) The awkward bit will be matching the repaired areas to the original Walnut colour:- I'll let you know how it turns out atvb sg1 Edited March 22, 2012 by sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg1 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2012 Have recieved email from AYA telling me it's a Model 105 from 1950 and obviously they don't make it anymore but I think this SxS is going to do me proud atvb sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg1 Posted April 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 My AYA's stock is nearly ready for reassembly , I've cleaned up the action but not too much as I don't want to make it look brand new and lose all it's character!! As soon as she's back together , I'll put some pics up on here and I'll also post how she shoots this weekend at 50+ clays (gonna need to make more room in my cabinet now !! ) atvb sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjimlad Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Looking forward to seeing the "after" pictures now ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggysreels Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 You must extract great pleasure/self satisfaction out of restoration ... really looks good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg1 Posted April 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Here's the stock after I got it back today:- Extremely impressed with the way it turned out , you can BARELY see the cut in piece of wood in the rear of stock!! and he did it at mates rates which basically means it's cost me a bottle of gin I'll put up a couple of final pics when it's all reassembled probably tomorrow. atvb sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SakoQuad Posted April 14, 2012 Report Share Posted April 14, 2012 everyone should have such mates! Nice looking job there - looking forward to seeing the completed article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg1 Posted April 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Ov_2Uodo0 Done PLEASE excuse the dodgy youtube music atvb sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted April 17, 2012 Report Share Posted April 17, 2012 I'm not easily impressed, but that is impressive. Well done. :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SakoQuad Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Ov_2Uodo0 Done PLEASE excuse the dodgy youtube music atvb sg1 Sorry don't know why but can't see any pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg1 Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Sorry don't know why but can't see any pic It's a video hosted on Youtube, maybe you have flash disabled in your settings?? Try this link <here> atvb sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SakoQuad Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 It's a video hosted on Youtube, maybe you have flash disabled in your settings?? Try this link <here> atvb sg1 Many thanks that did the trick. That is a very nice looking result! You must feel very pleased indeed. Hope you get much pleasure from using it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg1 Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 You can't see it in the video, but the metal of the action between the top lever and the safety catch sits proud by about 1mm due to the stock being rubbed down through about a MILLION layers of varnish as it's now oil stained instead. I don't mind though and I hit EVERYTHING I pointed it at last Sunday so all's good and that was with 21Gram carts as I don't want the stock to split again!! Thanks for your kind comments, atvb sg1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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