About 35 years ago my father-in-law bought a pre-64 M-70 with a Mannlicher-style custom maple stock done by N.B.Fashingbauer. It's skip-line checkered, solid and clean, nothing fuzzy about it. Non-traditional looking, but a beautiful piece of wood and wonderfully executed craftsmanship.

I don't blame improved modified for being fed up at gratuitous rudeness.

Jay