Dean the few DelGrego pads I've seen were black with their name on the end. Did they make multiple color pads?

Tom, I’ve seen a few brown ones.





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Yes, the current stock is not original.

If you use that blank, get a different forend piece. I would not use that for the forend on a SxS. It would not be strong and would be a pain to work with. Or if the gun were a splinter, you could get it out of the butt piece.

I have a few times had to go back to cecil and exchange forend blanks for straighter ones.

This gun came to me in a trade, and did not have a recoil pad. I installed a Decelerator. The pad was not fitted to this gun, and is slightly oversized.
I took the pad from a gun I had sold, and it pretty much just bolted on.
This gun has the Parker Single Trigger, which needs a little work.
The selector doesn't work properly, (won't fire left barrel first if selected) and has a very heavy trigger pull.
I've heard that some shooters cranked up trigger pull weights to stave off flinching problems. Don't know if that's the case here, but the gun is a project.
Possibly a very good project.
A friend of mine has been saying that he thinks this gun should be upgraded to an A, AA, or maybe an A1, but I don't have the finances for a project on that level.
A wood upgrade would be it for me.

Here's the right side. Both sides are good, but different.
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I have to agree with Brian that I wouldn't use that forearm blank and that the wood is over the top for a VHE. Watt's Walnut has some very nice black walnut blanks that would be more appropriate for your project. I bought a very nice blank from him for a rifle project for $300.