Well, you do what you can. In the case of my Smith gun, the stock looked good enough, but needed to be cleaned and inspected. While the gun was apart, the rest of it needed attention as well. Since my buddy volunteered to refinish the tubes while everything else was being cleaned in the ultrasonic bath, I took him up on that offer. The checkering was almost gone on the forend and the ebony tip was missing, so I had him address those issues as well. The gun certainly doesn't look "new" but it looks fairly-respectable to me now, which was my goal.