What matters is what your stocker thinks, not us here on the BBS. We can all love them but he must make them work and in person inspection by a stocker will show you almost all the blank problems, if any. Have you selected who is going to restock your gun? If so, ship him the blanks and gets his opinion. After all he is the one who will be using them to create your dream stock. A buyer might see the beauty on the surface but the stocker makes his living seeing problems long before he starts a job.