That butt stock might not be as bad as it looks. Patient scraping/sanding down to bare wood, re-break it and re-glue it if necessary, re-finish, re-cut the checkering. A lot of time/labor for sure but so what as long as you're doing it for yourself and not to make money on it. Besides, as Grogel Deluxe says "What's time to a pig?"

Again, it will never look like anything other than a once-broken stock that's been skillfully refinished, but still, it would be 100 year old Savage wood.


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