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The bottom line is that you finish the stock the way you like and are content with the result. Your taste should triumph. On this we agree.
It's great that we can believe whatever we want based on our own experience without any regard as to the opinions of others.......We can buy and refinish whatever and however we see fit based on what pleases us and our customers........doesn't get any better than that................ HERE'S A REALLY NICE PURDEY, LIKE NEW, WITH A BEAUTIFUL REAL WOOD FINISH THAT LOOKS GREAT, SIMILAR TO THE AyA THAT ADAM POSTED  
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Steven, your site is fascinating, just reading and looking at the pictures. Thank you. You clearly do good work...someone else I can pick the brain of..  T
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Don't you just hate the guy...makes me want to take up bowling.
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Battle,
The wood cost me about $180 which I know is ridiculous. Reason it was so cheap was that it was a quite thin blank, much thinner than most stockers would consider. Sold at auction as 'suitable for a small bore' I left a silly bid and got it!
One advantage of the Blanch back action SL's is that they are very narrow at the locks so a thin blank was fine.
The people involved in the stock's creation all agreed on one thing: the wood was horrible to work! Perhaps the vendor knew something I didn't!
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Interesting statement:
"It's great that we can believe whatever we want based on our own experience without any regard as to the opinions of others.......We can buy and refinish whatever and however we see fit based on what pleases us and our customers........doesn't get any better than that................"
I've seen a lot of work from guys who do just this. It ends up in my friend's shop when he has to repair it. Turns out that their "belief" in how something was supposed be done was just plain wrong.
In a lot of gun stuff, there are right ways and a wrong way. That's not an opinion, that's a fact.
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So much jumping down people's throats owd? Actually I believe people should do what makes them happy in life whatever that might be.
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Huh? We talking guns here?
If we're are, there are right ways and wrong ways to do things. That's a fact.
OWD
BTW: I'm not jumping down anyone's throat. I'm discussing something by bringing up another point of view.
Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 11/06/11 05:24 PM.
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Beautiful work Steven. Right now I'm trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear for my "to go gun". I always hated the color of the stock. I think it was cut out of a piece of blond Pi$$ Elm. Checkering is so bad I think they used two or possibly three lines per inch. 
Practice safe eating. Always use a condiment.
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