I, for one, am glad you decided to explain your earlier post, and feel better about you for it. You're right, sometimes guns need to be retired. Your earlier post seemed over critical and cruel (and somewhat snobbish)because you had no more idea than the rest of us whether the broken stock had been adequately and safely repaired prior to the cosmetic work or not. The point of the thread was to share some nice cosmetic work, even if it was done by a mere amateur...Geo