A friend had a horn plate grooved for a Lindner Daly Diamond Grade. I don't know how the gunsmith did the grooving. It would have been pretty difficult to do on a milling machine table since it is not dead flat but slightly "around the bend" as the grooves approach the edges of the plate. I am assuming the gunsmith used a checkering tool. It was a wonderful job. I have a Lindner Daly Diamond myself that has a pad. I would like to have the same job done with a thick piece of horn like my friend had done, but I don't know who to send it to. I have a piece of Mittermeier horn that is almost an inch thick, a bit thicker than Lewis Drakes buttplates. I have some Drake plates but they are not as thick as a recoil pad. I usually buy any horn buttplate I see at a good price. I did not buy a beautiful thin, curved, grooved, undrilled horn plate this weekend at a show just because it was not cheap. Now I am disappointed I didn't buy it because it sounds like just what you want. I only bought the Drake plates because they were thick. I would not prefer to grind them until they were thin. I think you can buy thin ones from other sources, like New England Custom Guns maybe. I think most thin ones are made curved, not flat. Most unfinished thick ones are flat because they are ususally used to replace a recoil pad which is normally installed on the flat.
Last edited by eightbore; 12/18/06 10:19 AM.
