Very, very nice RGK, good on you for giving this old girl more life to live, I had the same thing done to an old pre-64 model 70 I bought several years ago.
My guess was the stock was heavily oil soaked from years of cleaning/oiling and standing in a gun safe or closet, I was simply not willing to let that old girl oil rot to pieces, at that point I'd have 'NO' rifle stock at all.
