JK,
When I want to get dings out of a stock,I use a wet washcloth and my wife's steamiron.Have the iron heated up and lay thedamp to wet cloth over the stock and apply the heat. The resulting steam will cause the ding to rise back to the original height. For the crack,is it all the way through or just on the surface? Sometimes you can spread it out a little and get a quality glue in there. If it's cracked badly, you can pin it back together,but this may be more than what you want to get into just yet.
HWD
When I want to get dings out of a stock,I use a wet washcloth and my wife's steamiron.Have the iron heated up and lay thedamp to wet cloth over the stock and apply the heat. The resulting steam will cause the ding to rise back to the original height. For the crack,is it all the way through or just on the surface? Sometimes you can spread it out a little and get a quality glue in there. If it's cracked badly, you can pin it back together,but this may be more than what you want to get into just yet.
HWD