Joe I can tell you from personal experience you get only one shot at it, a Lefever, and the top tang needs to be inlet thinking about where the natural oval end will end up. You don't inlet it straight down but slightly forwards at the same time. It curves forward as you inlet it into the stock. For that reason I use highly accurate inlet blanks which I can not always do myself, on my duplicator, with confidence. The side plate area is fairly straight forwards. For $900.00 you will not get a lot of precise work on any restock job. Stockers need to pay their bills and eat like the rest of us.
I get one out of three Lefevers maybe real close and the other two are a pain in the you know what to do. I have only done six or eight so it is a small sample but I don't like doing them. With most stocks a 90% copy is not that big of a deal for say a Remington 1100 or Model 12. When you under cut a pattern you end up doing a lot of hand work just to get a decent semi inlet stock. A well copied stock, 95-97% is almost easy where one which is 90% you might as well have a square blank sometimes.
The other thing I notice about Lefevers is that they have some of the smallest wrist of any doubles I have duplicated. Some of them are so thin that you get the feeling that your 12 is a 20 because the wrist is so thin and feels very long in your hand. A few have a diamond shape to them. I have some which are just a large as any other make but when you come across a light weight Lefever notice the grip is more sleek. A nice touch to the eye and it just feels great.
