Dave,
I got the stock 90% done and was so dissatisfied with the quality of what I'd done, especially on the fore-end, I started over. Also the bummer of throwing away a nicely figured chunk of walnut was diminished because as I chopped away on the blank, the figure almost dissapeared.
I learned a bunch while doing the first one so version 2 is going much faster with much better results.
Here's where I left off on Ver1, next to a much happier Citori project:
Looks OK from a distance, but up close all the mistakes were in my face. Hanging around here has set the quality bar higher, in a good way.
