What a story. I feel a lot better about the $700 I put in a forend and a reblue for a Fox BE. It still bothers me that the big Missouri stock outfit (won't mention names but begins with W) sent me a semi-inlet forend in American black walnut altho I orderd it in English or French or Circassian or whatever they were calling it that day and underlined the request the best I could by telephone. It bothers me that I didn't see the difference when it arrived It bothers me that the gentleman who finished it for me chose not to embarass me by mentioning the difference up front. It bothers me enuf to make me think hard about the function and cosmetics of what I buy.

jack