How do you fix a dent in fx synthetic stock?

If its in the front bottom you could cover it with a pic rail .
Post a better picture of the location of the mark .
Ray

maybe sand it out, step down grit from medium to fine

Hair dryer, on low at first. If that doesn't do it, crank it up. Heat will cause it to expand, and if you're lucky, expand enough to make the dent disappear.

Leave it alone and learn to live with it. Anything you do from here on out will only make it worse.
I realize there are people who simply could not live with something like that but crap happens and it ain’t the end of the world.

i have a buddy that is a repairman /builder of guitars, that applies a wet cloth on the dent & applies heat with soldering iron , i have seen this done many times ..

RAMJET66 said:

i have a buddy that is a repairman /builder of guitars, that applies a wet cloth on the dent & applies heat with soldering iron , i have seen this done many times ..

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I know that's an old wood worker's trick but SYNTHETIC stock?!? I hardly think so.

RAMJET66 said:

i have a buddy that is a repairman /builder of guitars, that applies a wet cloth on the dent & applies heat with soldering iron , i have seen this done many times ..

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On wood. This is synthetic.

asgardpark said:

Hi
I got a small dent in my fx crown stock not really a big issue but still annoying.
Any one got a tip for that? maby what material they used or color code?
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I had a Crosman Stealth that ended up with a noticeable crack/dent in the forarm and it bugged the h3ck out of me.
I super glued the crack, filled the dent with baking soda and dripped some liquid super glue in it. After it hardened I lightly sanded with fine sand paper and then colored it with a marker. jmho

Personally I would fill with JB Weld, do some surface prep and spray with either Krylon Plastic paint or DuraCoat. The material FX uses is more like plastic foam than the standard reinforced abs plastic mixture we see on so many PB. And you probably wont ever really be able to fix it. A few coats of a good primer, paint, and expoxy clear or duracoat clear will give it a lot of durability.

Here is a stock I did forever ago and wish I still had:

Almost looks like a hole with a plug in it.

.20calguy said:

On wood. This is synthetic.

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Agreed. I’m a lutheir and this tip works sometimes on wood, I’ve tried it on synthetic materials and it does not work. As some one else said, leave it alone.

Gorrila glue makes a black epoxy
can use a fine tip paint brush to fill in the dent...but it probably won't match texture of the soft touch finish that FX uses.
but filling it in might make it more noticable.
Your eye is going to go there like a magnet since you know it is there
I would just leave it alone

i agree leave it alone. it isnt bad at all , character

Fill it with automotive body filler (yes, it works), sand.
Then paint the stock your preferred color, or wrap it with vinyl, or have it hydro dipped.

There's no magic to "swelling" plastic permanently.

Mike

Install a 3M bullet hole sticker over it?

RAMJET66 said:

i have a buddy that is a repairman /builder of guitars, that applies a wet cloth on the dent & applies heat with soldering iron , i have seen this done many times ..

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Yeah that works on wood (I know from my construction days with a misplaced hammer strike), but a synthetic material?

A dab of Flex-Seal?

mike