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The first two are of a stock I did for a friend, way back when. The wood was a spectacular figured piece of Claro walnut, but checkering it was so "soggy" I settled on 18 LPI. It was still a kind of PITA.

The last is a piece of New Zealand-grown European walnut, on a rifle I stocked for myself. It was hard and consistent enough to easily take finer checkering, if I recall correctly 22 LPI. (It's also the only rifle I stocked that I still have, a 6.5x55 on an FN action, with a 3-position Dave Gentry safety he installed a couple years before he passed away.)

Eventually did not have enough "spare" time to do stocks, and noticed my checkering patterns on my own rifles were getting smaller and smaller, indicating a certain level of burn-out. But it was fun while it lasted!