A stock-maker friend in one of the Carolinas told me years ago that he liked to use a product called Cure Rot to strengthen the wood where he was about to checker. Said it made his checkering better, but every job did-in a set of cutters. Also said he was tempted to use it as a finish but hadn't tried it in that application yet.
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<br>Cure Rot, I understand, is a water-thin epoxy used to impregnate dry-rotted areas of wooden boat hulls and restore their strength so that they need no further repair. I've seen it in catalogs but have never tried it for anything. A few gun-maker friends whom I've told about it have tried it and told me it worked as well as Joe said it did.
