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.
