Stephen,
Really incredible inletting on the Shelhamer butt plate. The Continental guns often have the inletting black left at the final fit like this job. Any reason for that?
Dennis
Dennis, the inletting is pretty standard for a quality job. I'd like more contact in the middle, less chance of chipping the edge.
Why the blue/black isn't removed? As a rule I don't answer "why" questions because there usually isn't an answer.
Just to show off if anyone had the inclination to look, or one less scraping? Who knows? In this case I'd suspect the signature wanted to show quality work, inside and out.
I've been known to hide things, and notes under the furniture…
I just hollowed out a space for the original folding sight under the recoil pad I installed on a Mannlicher that I replaced the fixed sight… hate to see these parts get separated, you know?
