Chuck it was about a year ago that I bought the blank. It is certaintly worth a call he sent me a lot of pictures to choose from. It was a tough choice. The only thing that I was not happy with was the forend piece. What I got is a beautiful piece of wood but it does not match very well. Doug Mann told me that there was enough wood in the butt stock to get the forend so I never made an issue of it. I just kept the forend piece that I got.