Just received my 12 Gauge Repro back from my 'smith, after an almost 3 year wait ....

He had a 'few issues' surrounding immigration / sponsorship and personal / business problems, not to mention the finicky demands of my job - single trigger / doubling.

He successfully dealt with the doubling thing and also did a complete ( oil ) refinish of the wood, due to shrinkage of original hard finish ....his words.

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Was the finish crazing Tony? (i.e., cracking)

Obliquely viewed and in favourable light, relatively significant rippling of the more expansive areas of the buttstock could be seen.

Tony, you are a VERY patient person.:corn:

Amen to that Steve

Here's one of my workhorse guns for training (28ga)

I really like the nicely streaked EW found on some of the Repros. This is one I refinished. It's an oil finish with a very thin coat of Spar Urethane rubbed in for moisture resistance.

Nice, reminds me of my 12.. Having mine refinished as well.

Ooops, it's a Fox. :eek:

XE 20, 2 barrel set

I'm still looking for a nice Parker Repro 20 bore, straight stock, splinter, 28-inch tubes, double triggers. Case and accessories optional. Nothing else please!

Back on page 12 of this thread I posted pics of a NOS Parker Reproduction replacement stock. This stock was to be a replacement for one of my consecutively numbered pair of Sporting Clays Classics -- one I shoot, the other is NIB unfired. A previous owner whacked the SSBP off to install a recoil pad of the gun I use, the pad has bothered me to the bejeezus as I wanted to bring the gun back to its original configuration. However, the color of the wood of this replacement stock turned out not a particularly good match to that gun's forend and that gun's wood was not a good match to its consecutive numbered gun. I tried to find an original Repro forend to match this stock, but to no avail. So I decided to purchase a blank from Cecil Fredi and have a new splinter forend made to compliment the replacement stock. The color and figure of the replacement stock and soon-to-be-made forend should make this consecutively numbered pair of SCCs appear the factory intended them to be a true pair.

Here's are a couple of pics of the new forend blank with that NOS replacement stock.

Nice match.