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How practical is to alter/remove a cheek piece from a european straight gun stock and turn it into an english stock? Has anyone done it? What are your thoughts on it?
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Are you thinking about removing a raised cheek piece? If so make sure that by doing so you don't create a stock with too much cast. Sometimes a cheek piece gives you cast and removing it moves your face too far towards the left. As to removing it that is a straight forward process but fresh wood will be much lighter than the rest of the stock in color. You can stain it for a better match. But measure twice before you cut once.
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Euro cheekpiece stocks usually have a very slender comb. As with concern stated stated above, I would be carefully measuring with respect to cast.
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Depends on the particular stock.
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Are you thinking about removing a raised cheek piece? If so make sure that by doing so you don't create a stock with too much cast. Sometimes a cheek piece gives you cast and removing it moves your face too far towards the left. Jon; What am I missing here? Would not removing the cheek piece move your face to the right. This seems to be compatible with your first warning of not giving it too much cast. I don't understand how removing wood from the left side of the stock can move your face left. I do agree it will change the fit so if it fits now could be detrimental to good shooting.
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This is a picture of a otherwise nice Parker DHE I was negotiating on awhile back but didn't buy. This is about as ugly as it gets and had I bought the gun the stock would have had to be replaced. I have no idea what alterations were performed over the years to get it into this condition. Jim 
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Are you thinking about removing a raised cheek piece? If so make sure that by doing so you don't create a stock with too much cast. Sometimes a cheek piece gives you cast and removing it moves your face too far towards the left. Jon; What am I missing here? Would not removing the cheek piece move your face to the right. This seems to be compatible with your first warning of not giving it too much cast. I don't understand how removing wood from the left side of the stock can move your face left. I do agree it will change the fit so if it fits now could be detrimental to good shooting. My thoughts as well. I also assumed the additional cast would move your face further to the right.
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You might be able to remove the cheekpiece and then bend the stock to give you the cast that you require.
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You caught me in a dyslexic minute due to staying up to watch my future made better last night. What I was trying to explain without sleep is that most guns with a cheek piece that are a fairly decent fit don't get better when the cheek piece is remover. Some of them that I have seen are cast off stocks if the cheek piece is removed. That would be a real bad surprise if you took off the extra wood only to find it no longer fits well.
The top of the stock is often very thin, not real comfortable to me. Perhaps if my face was thinner I might not care but my round face tends to get chopped up by real thin stock combs. Hence my not to measure twice before starting and I would try to figure out what cast off might result from the work. If you end up with a stock that goes from 3/8"+ positive on to 3/8"+ negative cast off your final stock might not be of much use. I hate surprises in stock work. Few are happy ones which I have found out the hard way.
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