[Joe Bernfeld]

Congratulations, Dave. You did a great job and quite quickly! Beautiful piece of wood. Did you need to re-cut the checkering? I'm going to hijack this thread since I logged on just to post a before and after pic of a refinished Repro stock, so people could see what an amazing difference an oil finish does to those guns. I only took the after pic, so it is harder to compare. This is the 28 ga on which I broke the wrist in 1/2 and repaired it. That's actually why I refinished it. Before and after:
Joe