Originally Posted By: Shotgunlover
After bending the stock how is the pitch angle preserved to its original setting? The apparent and easy way would be wedges under the pad or plate. Is there another way?

Attach a 1/4" spacer, cut the pitch, replace the pad with a thinner one.

Obviously, when you start playing with stock lines in permanent, or semi permanent ways, you are moving away from "average" dimensions and fit.

The next guy may well want it back to the original shape, and any chopping and filing makes that impossible.

Out there doing it best I can.