I wouldn't pay $900 for a pattern stock
Last time I was shopping for wood, the asking price for the board I was interest in was $700. A finished stock would have been 4 times that.
Yes, but a pattern stock is used as, well, a pattern to duplicate stocks from. As such, they are typically made from the least expensive stable piece of wood available. Now, the stock that is duplicated from the pattern that is where you want to spend for a nice piece of wood.
