If you can get a hoenig stock duplicated for $500 that is the way to go. Given a clean pattern stock you are talking about almost drop in stock job. Finish the restock is much cheaper than getting a 90-95% semi inletted stock. It still takes hours to fit a semi inletted blank and time is money on a project like this.
My duplicator, which started out as a Gemini before a lot of modifications, will give you a 95% plus job. It takes about three hours for the average stock but then the real work starts. It takes many more hours to fit and finish a stock. I could not find a hoenig machine when I was looking for one to buy and had a hard time justifying three times extra investment in a duplicator.
There was one other hoenig machine in Colora Maryland at one time. Name of the owner escapes me. I am sure someone here can supply the name. so many names, and so little recall as you get older.
