Here's a couple of pics of a Lefever Nitro Special A grade stock that Mike Kokolus duplicated for me. I wouldn't call the marks on the wood of the repaired and copied original 'scratches, but more like very light compression or burnished marks. My tape ID lable was on the stock when it was duplicated and you can see that the stylus bumped over it in the closeup. Those very light rub marks are from the follower stylus. I'd guess it all depends on who is doing the work and his/her set up. I've been happy with his work so far. The new stock shown is as-received. I've not done any work on it yet. Nice clean inletting and outside surfaces. I think I told him I wanted approx .010" extra on the outside on this one. If I was having a mint original copied, I wouldn't want those marks on mine either though. I would have to find a way of avoiding it or another duplicator guy to do the work on that one if it is possible to do w/o damaging it.
Hope this helps..
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