I just restored a spanish stock that a woodchuck made. It was that rough and close to being firewood. Being a woodworker in my early teens to twenties i can pretty much build and refinish anything. Now i would like to try my hands on making the orginal wood stocks if i can't find them. I've seen some bastone walnut thats out of this world looking. They offer it for garands and i may get a garand just to get the bastone stock for it. Maybe stock making is my new calling.
Bastone Walnut
www.westtexasarmory.com/WTAwoodstocks.htm There's nothing like a good piece of wood. Schroll down and look at the 1911 grips too.
The only other wood i have seen thats this purdy is the brazilian rosewood.
I need to upgrade my kodak setup to post pics. I just can't get it to work on my new puter.