Stock Extension Treatment

[Ed Blake]

Several years ago I bought an 1892 vintage GH with 32" barrels. What caught my attention was the unstruck weight of 5 even. It had 3" of drop and a stock cut to about 12 3/4". From the first picture you can see the stock was dirty with a lot of oil and dirt at the head of the stock. Recently, I decided to have the stock bent. There was so much oil in the wood my guy just heated the wood and did not have to add canola. It came up about 7/8" in the heel. I then soaked the stock in lacquer thinner to remove the oil and my stocker added a 1" extension, which he then checkered. I had heard of this from more experienced Parker collectors and always wanted to try it. What do you think? The wood turned out gorgeous. The checkered portion is simply screwed to the stock with the pad screwed through the extension to the butt. The dimensions now are 1 3/4" x 2 1/4 x 14 7/8". Pardon the somewhat fuzzy pictures.