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Gentlemen,

This just in:

http://s295.photobucket.com/user/Kyrie_E...012%20Ga?sort=6

The gun is a Jose Luis Urbiola 12 gauge side lock ejector. Cost to restock was $1300, turn around time was a little less than four months.

The first photo is the gun before restocking, second photo is the stock blank used, the rest of the photos show the gun restocked.

At $1300 and four months, that's an outstanding job and I am one happy camper.

Wonderful, thank you for sharing
Mike

Very nice.

Nice!
I have a little 20ga damascus Flues project I will be speaking to them about in the AM.

very, very nice wood......I'm contemplating sending a model 12 to them for a re-stock job.

Great restock and excellent layout for such a highly figured blank. I love that bold, flowing scroll engraving!

$1300 for both the stock and forend? That's an absolute steal. They are getting better. This one turned out better than the last gun you posted. I'm guessing that as they improve in the quality of the work, the $1300 will go up, likely way up.

Looks very nice.

That looks like real value for money Kyrie. And from previous postings I know you have had good experiences with Macon. But it is buyer beware with those guys and that is from personal experience, echoing what many others have found.

Very quickly, I correspond with a fellow hunting enthusiast in France. Last summer (July) he contracted to buy a specific rifle stock from Macon and sent them the money by PayPal. According to Macon, the requested rifle stock would be shipped within a week or two.

After 7 weeks of no tracking numbers and ever increasing difficulty getting what appeared to be a straight answer from Macon, in mid September Macon stopped replying to any contact from my friend.

In very late November he asked me to help, reasoning a North American might have better success in resolving the situation. After a month of using my best accounts receivable collection techniques I was able to get him his $275 back. In three different PayPal payments, each one requiring the full onslaught of phone calls and emails detailing previous explanations and commitments and making clear how those had not been lived up to. I received three entirely different excuses for why the stock had no been sent out! A lot of work for $275!

My take away was they thought they could just screw over a guy in France and there would be no recourse for the customer and no skin off their nose if they just kept the money.

I would only buy a product or service from them if the payment terms were on receipt of satisfactory goods. I would never send them up front money.

I don't doubt they are competent when they choose to be. My experience with sending them a 16 ga. Rem. M-31L for pre-paid restocking to custom LOP and drop specs with a modified off-the-shelf stock was a costly disaster that lasted many months -- similar to what canvasback describes and too unpleasant for me to want to wallow in the details again.

Edited to add a photo that doesn't begin to show all the problems with what they delivered and failed to deliver -- including never returning my original stock. I eventually got a refund, then had to pay much more than the original cost to have this stock re-made as near right in all dimensions as could be salvaged.