Dean2 |
12-31-2014 01:28 PM |
Sounds like you have made good progress with your smith but it also sounds like he is making excuses still. HS stocks are brittle but they can and often are inlet, trimmed and have new bottom metal fitted to them without making this kind of a mess.
If you know what you are doing you can turn out better work with hand tools than 99.8% of people can with milling machines and the like. It is all in knowing which tool to use and how to use it properly. I don't work on guns for a living but would be HUGELY disappointed in myself if I turned out this kind of work.
While the fit and finish is pretty poor at least with fiberglass it can be fixed by someone who knows what they are doing. Once fixed you will never be able to tell it was messed up in the first place. If your current smith can't fix it to that level of quality, go to someone like Leeper, Bob Galoway or Dave Bently that can.
Just my 2 cents. Hopefully your existing smith can fix it back to perfect or nearly so.
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