Charley himself could do very good stock work... at least the Ballards he built for himself and his son (both position rifles for .22 matches) have nice wood. I don't know for sure that he did the stock work, but when his grandson showed them to me, he gave me the definite impression that all the work was by his grandfather. It was commonly known, however, that Johnson liked to do the main work of making the action work at which he excelled and fitting the barrels, and that he often used barrels made or lined by others and subbed out stock work as well. This is from conversations with his grandson over a couple of years.
Froggie
