Stanton, the original flat top was cut with almost parallel, thin cutters. Hardly any taper at all. Big difference. The few that can do it make their own cutters. Flat top leaves very little room for errors—each top should be the same size as all others. Good reason todays checkers won’t do it.

Here is a modern example of finely cut flat top checkering. A very well known artist building the very finest flintlock rifles made this stock for his 6.5 Swedish Mauser. He explained to me the process and it’s problems.

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John McCain is my war hero.