Some of the work we are seeing has been done by the basement hobbyist (like all those beautiful original Mausers and Springfields sporterized) and not gunsmiths.
Gunsmiths no doubt have done and are doing some of that poor work, but behind every gunsmith is a customer or a prospective customer. Many of these guns had/have little value beyond the functional and there is a large segment of gun ownership that includes folks that are not collectors and don't really care about preserving old guns in a "museum" state of preservation or restoring them to factory new cosmetics. Consumers and owners therefore are the real source of this work. When it doesn't sell, and people care, it will cease to be an issue.
Doug
