Leather covered recoil pad

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Learning a new fancy skill: leather covered recoil pads. Popular on English doubles and sporting rifles. It will be good to be able to offer this service, so hoping my trial runs work out.

Step one is to soak the leather, very thin leather, and then stretch it over the fit pad while it dries.

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After the leather is dry and formed to the pad, the leather is peeled up from one side and coated with contact cement, and then the same is done for the other side (long ends).
 
When the gluing the leather down is done and dry, you slice the leather covering the plug holes in a pie pattern. Make steel dowels of the right size, coat the undersides of the pie cuts with glue and inset the dowels, thereby gluing the leather down inside the plug holes.

To figure out the diameter of the dowels, you determine the thickness of the leather (.020ā€ in this case), and the thickness of the plugs you will use (.580ā€), then subtract 2x the leather thickness from the plug diameter.

.580ā€ - .040ā€ = steel dowels .540ā€ in diameter.

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NiceOldDouble said:
Learning a new fancy skill: leather covered recoil pads. Popular on English doubles and sporting rifles. It will be good to be able to offer this service, so hoping my trial runs work out.

Step one is to soak the leather, very thin leather, and then stretch it over the fit pad while it dries.

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I wouldā€™ve thought vegetable tanned leather would have been best?
 
Nice work. Isn't Barge Cement the bees knees? FWIW, I'm not sure if you let it pre-tack before gluing down, but it makes all the difference in the world. If I'm in a rush, I will hit it with a hair dryer or heat gun just to the point where the glue wants to bubble up, and the bond is like iron at that point. I do some model making with EVA foam, and it's all I use.
 
Cut my pie slices, glued them down, filled in the spaces with tinted AcraGlass Gel, clamped to a flat surface covered in wax paper. Planning to use this little tool to make the customary decorative lines.

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Mr. Bggs said:
How much would one of those run a fella?
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It would depend some on if your gun already had a suitable pad to cover already or not. The pads I use are $45, and then it would have to be ground to fit your gun, and covered.
 
Have them in several versions. speedfeed model, honeycombed brown, hogue rubber, and factory rem rubber in black. I was just asking as I'm dirt poor now. Curious if it's something i could afford down the road.
 
Hogue and Rem pads may be fine. Wood stock? The plastic stock might cut into the leather and make it not last as long.

Probably around $150 plus leather.
 
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