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"When is wood too gaudy for a stock?"
That's like asking when is ones lady is too busty.....

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!! Grant.

IMHO, I think it's important that the wood match the gun. I don't want to see highly figured wood on an old plain jane field grade gun. It would be like putting Eva Longoria's beautiful face on Rosie O'Donnell's body. What a waste! Sorry if I made anyone sick with that comparison. I was only trying to use an extreme example to make my point.

I've had these pics posted before, but here they are again as an example of wood matching the gun, again IMHO.

http://groups.msn.com/Herbicide/shoebox.msnw?Page=3

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Now that Amigo Will brought up the Model 21 how about some pictures!!!!!

Doug, is this the one that you forwrded to me for scratching ? ken

I don't ever recall seeing a gun with too nice wood on it. However, I have run across many a 60's 70's nouveau-esk overstyled stocks like the one below. For some reason this styling with hugely flared gripcaps and butts with overly curved rollover cheekrests was the rage. Hideous looking to me.

I'm thinking of the Spanish Mauser 7 m/m that I bought at a flea market last summer for $50.00. The wood, after cleaning and dent raising, is easily the equal of the Fox shown here, and it shows a fair amount of fiddleback. Beleive me, I looked and measured to see if I could find enough wood in that stock to use on a better gun. No dice, so it will be one very pretty-rainy-day-loan-it-to-your-brother-in-law-spare-rifle. Hopefully some soldier got some pleasure from looking at it between battles.

I'm one of those driving the Corvette, mike, but it is red. And I doubt that you are passing me.

If all my guns and rifles had wood like this Alex. Henry rifle I would be delighted:





My apologies for the rifle insurgency!

Curl

Godd on ya, Jimmy! ( maybe I'll pass ya goin' the other way? )

Curl,

That wood looks exactly like the stocks on the very highest grade Foxes that were made. English walnut like Chuck's (my personal favorite, too) is supposedly becoming scarcer and more pricey since it comes from very old, gnarly trees that are disappearing and not being replaced. Seems reasonable then that it would have been somewhat more common 100 years ago, and it should have been radily available to someone ordering a a high-end double. But it seems more in vogue for modern upgrades. As much as I like Chuck's stock, it wouldn't be taken for original on an early FE grade.