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Originally Posted By: Dan S. W.
What are you willing to spend? I think the going rate on a leather covered recoil pad is something like $3-400, having Mark do grain painting will add to that cost, I imagine not insignificantly.


The comment above makes a lot of sense. Considering that the current stock wood does not appear to be highly figured, the total cost of a leather pad job and fake grain painting has to be closing in on the cost of a factory equivalent restock. I emphasize factory equivalent because I understand that the cost could be significantly higher if you demand perfect execution by a high dollar custom stock maker, and exhibition grade French walnut.

At the other extreme, the cheapest way out would be a decent lace on leather pad that covered the non-matching wood extension. The nicer ones aren't terribly hard to look at, and are a viable solution for a gun that isn't valuable enough or used enough to justify spending a lot. And I'm surprised that no one has mentioned a butt transplant as yet another alternative.


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Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I have some thinking to do about it. BillK

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You may contract for more than one leather covered pad before you get one that is acceptable. Mark Larson is more expensive than a leather pad, but probably more foolproof. I am inclined to go with a butt implant to solve similar problems in my collection.

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The Kickease 1.25 thick pad may give you the help you need.

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thank you eightbore and Bill

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To my eye, the thinner a leather pad is, the better it looks. I stop at 1" thick pads with 3/4" being the most attractive. Adding over an inch of lop is hard to do while maintaining the proper look. You might inquire with Mark or Denis Earl Smith about an invisible extension and a pad. Most likely the best bet with the amount of length you are trying to add.


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I agree Steve. Too thick a pad, leather covered or not, looks like death eating a cracker.

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