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Leave it alone, Brian.
Fake is fake, and forever so.
Go out and enjoy the nice stock that you have.
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I like the way it looks as is.
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Another vote for as is.
I have a custom rifle with much worse left-right asymmetry. But I'm happy with it anyway.
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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Brian, It is your gun, do what makes you happy!! But if it were my gun I am with Stan. My weakness is nice wood on a gun and I think both sides look very nice. Don't get me wrong, Mark's work is outstanding and second to none but it is "still" enhanced coloring and not natural to the stock. For an extension or damaged stock I would not hesitate using Mark for the repair if the gun warranted it but in this case, if it were my gun, I wouldn't touch it.
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Grain flow looks great through the wrist, where it matters. Everything else is a bonus and I'd say you did very well.
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I had the sides labeled wrong. see edit.
then tell me what you think.
maybe its all in my head and I am just pissed that the right side isn't as smokey as the left and it irks me that for the cost of that blank, it should have been the same on both sides.
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Brian, I'm with the suggestion to leave it alone, as I think it looks nice as is. The photos of my Churchill bear out the notion of natural grain as it presents itself. Grain at the wrist is most important. Karl  
Last edited by Karl Graebner; 12/30/19 02:13 PM.
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I think it is in your head. I think it is great! The two sides are very complimentary in my opinion. I would enjoy admiring both sides when I'm sitting in a duck blind and the going is slow. I also love the way the grain sweeps into the wrist on both sides. Just about ideal to me.
What is the white stuff on the sides of the pad/buttplate? Maybe it is just glare.
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I am with all those saying leave it alone. Nothing wrong with the way it looks.
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Why on earth would you even think the right side is plain? Good grief.
I actually like the right side better.
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Last edited by John Roberts; 12/30/19 02:52 PM.
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