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[img:center]  [/img] Yay! I think I finally figured out how to post a photo. This French walnut stock is too short and so I need about a 3/4" extension. I can't decide if I should use horn or ebony. I think I am going with Madagascar ebony with a bit of figure in it which may blend with this very old and high quality French walnut. I think it will look better than a leather covered pad or a recoil pad. Any opinions?
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A nice solid red pad is used on some of the finest guns in the world and would be very suitable on your gun also. Pads are good.
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A S.W. Silver pad or a leather covered S.W. Silver pad. That wood looks too nice do anything else with.
I've had a couple of leather covered Pachmayer pads done & if I had it to do over I would use a genuine S.W. Silver pad covered in pigskin or an uncovered S.W. Silver pad.
The leather covered pads look very nice but they begin to look tacky quickly if you hunt where they have briars.
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Definitely a pad. An extension of non matching wood would be very distracting. A butt graft done by one of the top men would be a decent third choice.
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I'd have a hard time not just wearing a thicker jacket and leaving it as it is. That is pure perfection!
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What about a wood extension colored/marked to match by Mark Larson? I presume (but do not know for sure) that he could do that.
I would be concerned about the weight of a Silvers pad.
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Randy McCune's brother used to fashion butt plates out of contrasting wood, and they looked pretty good. Randy posts here as RMC and a thread search might turn up some pics that he had posted years ago.
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Ebony or horn would look great, ebonite would even look good and be considered proper too. Horn is going to be the most expensive. Stock makers do not like working with horn and they hate checkering horn most of all. You've had work done by my pal in Logan, call him up and discuss :-)
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Redoak:
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