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Gee think up your own insult. I had pointed out what a sensitive flower you are many times in the past.

You are like a desert flower according to your wife, fragile and does not last very long.

Wow Stevie, that's pretty rough. Especially coming from a fairy like you, who has never slept with a woman.

Well, I now feel like I've officially joined the club. Ive been wondering when i would finally post something would start an argument!

(I also take the argument as validation that my question wasn't too amateurish and obvious)

I'll let y'all know who's right if I get the gun.

Buy the gun. Ignore the argument...Geo

There is no way with the competition from gunmakers that Lang would let that go it just wouldn't happen

There is no way with the competition from gunmakers that Lang would let that go it just wouldn't happen

Inclusions and "checks" are pretty common in highly figured wood and in the old days were commonly repaired with stick shellac applied and smoothed with a heated spatula or pallet knife. The real "trick" was in the ability of the stockmaker to match the color of the wood. They kept a selection of shellac sticks in various colors. This was before epoxy and certainly before "plastic wood"(boo) or other filler, and was regarded as the proper way to address the problem. Whether "Lang would let that go" boiled down to a judgement of whether they would use a piece of highly figured wood for a stock or for firewood.
Mike

Or if they would lose a valued customer that could have been buying from them for years.

In all probability this is some form of after market damage to the stock. My reasoning for this is I have seen many stocker repairs that cover faults in a stock blank that are so good as to be virtually undetectable. The reason a stocker can cover up flaws so well is simple he has a goodly amount of spare timber that he has removed in the shaping of the stock, therefore he can choose grain type and exact figuring and colour to blend in with the finished stock to make a virtually undetectable splice or fill in. In the normal run of events of a stock damage original wood in enough quantity to choose from has a tendency to make all fill in types of repair extremely noticeable, the repair in the photograph looks like a filler of some sort has been used IMHO.

Possibly the stock originally had a good filler in a wood defect, but over the years it loosened and fell out . The replacement filler was not done real well.