This is out of sequence but this is exactly what I got back from Charlie Grace after he pre-carved it for me. (Plus the Unertl.) I had asked him to inlet it for me. His machine carving is so good that inletting is fairly easy.

I have done my own inletting in the past but, this time, time was an issue. I really wanted to be able to shoot it in matches this summer and Charlie is much, much faster than I am.

My goal when shaping the pattern stocks was to make sure that there was plenty of wood at this stage. It's easy to take wood off... really difficult to put back on.

Dick Wright