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Pressed checkering is so ugly, even dried mud on a gunstock looks better. Most laser engraving is about the same but Im sure as time goes by it will get better. I hope so anyways.
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Somewhere in my vault there is a Remington 700 ADL from the 1960s with that hideous pressed checkering. I'm guessing it's hiding in the darkest corner out of embarrassment. If I didn't have 10 thumbs I'd be tempted to try to recut it, but as bad as it looks, I'd only make it worse and it's not worth paying someone else to do it given what those rifles sell for these days.
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How safe queens are created. Too ugly to use.
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John I recut many a Remington 1100 pressed checkering panel. At least a hundred of them. Hated that plastic finish Remington used back then also. Would have been a much easier task without that RKW finish or whatever they called it. It was a finish best used on bowling pins. Thick, nasty stuff.
Did my own 1100s first . Then just about every other 1100 at several clubs I shot at. Back in those days we had a lot of trap shooters and the funny thing was that trap MC stocks were all much fancier wood than the B grade Skeet stocks. The regular a Skeet A grade wood was so bland it might as well been beech. They all had that glumly, thick plastic finish on them. First pass you have to clean out your cutters every inch or two. Jon, Can you please explain to me and others here how you "re-cut" the reverse, mashed-unto-the-wood pressed-in "checkering"? There are no grooves to follow, so what is the process you use? JR You need to get out more: https://www.shootingtimes.com//editorial/gunsmithing_0106/100374Carol, the lead checkering lady at Ahlmans Custom Gun, in Morristown, MN can make a pressed checkering Remington look like a million bucks. It will still be a Remington, however. Best, Ted
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Be strong, be of good courage.
God bless America, long live the Republic.
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