Here is the picture of my stock after Dave worked on it. If you look carefully you can see the slightly different color to the right of the drop point and running up through the top tip of the checkering. He didn't even refinish the butt, just blended the affected area to save me some money. Said he could make it completely disappear if we refinished the entire butt. Since this was my grouse gun I thought I would wait until it needed to be refinished and then have him do it.