I still have the vintage Winchester .22 bolt gun my dad grew up with. Tack drivin' sonuvagun it is. When I was about 10 I was looking at the broken stock, right in the pistol grip area, that had been that way since my father was young. "If ya don't like it that way, fix it." he tells me. Friction tape was the outer layer. I peeled the tape off to find what looked like piano wire wrapped and twisted around the grip. This will never do, where is that epoxy? Stripped the rifle down finish and all, epoxied it, stabilized it so the crack wouldn't spread before the epoxy set, smoothed it out and varnished it. Looked better than Winchester's finish. The bluing was mostly gone but that's the way I liked it no light reflection that way.
I got to look up that model # and see when that thing was built.