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I don't have a photo to show you, so bear with me...
Its a Sauer combination gun (16 ga. over .30-30) that I'm looking at. For reasons unknown its had the last 4" of the buttstock cut off and replaced with a piece of walnut whose grain runs perpendicular to the rest of the stock. The work is well done, by why was it done across the grain?
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ninepointer,
The only person that can answer your question is the one that did it. I can't think of any reason other than "he didn't know any better"; but this is contradicted by your statement that it was "well done".
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Some like to blend in, some like to stick out  With kind regards, Jani
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Its been almost a decade since I last laid eyes on this particular gun, but I now have the fortune of first right of refusal. No one knows why the stock had been cut, then extended again, but I remember the wood being mated well; physically, more so than aesthetically. If it comes home with me next month, I'll post some photos and pick your brains.
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Maybe it was easier to cut an 'oval' out of a 1" plank than to find a piece thick enough for a proper extension?
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I've had situations in the past where a (rest)-piece of wood was just that 1/4 inch too short one way, but OK to make the piece the other way (if you know what I mean)
And as sod's law would have it, the grain would then be going the wrong way.
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Apologies for the topic shift but, Gunter, where abouts in Kent? I spent a fair amount of time in and near Ramsgate. Lovely part of the world.
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If the grain is running the opposite of the stock, then it is not "well done".
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