rifle checkering-yes-no?

With my checkered past I have to.
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Quote:For me, nothing looks worse than a nice piece of walnut finished well but without checkering. Checkering puts a finished look to a wood rifle stock.

Ain't that the truth.

A wood stock without checkering looks cheap or like the person/company was to lazy to finish it. In my opinion of course.
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And $55 for checkering whether pressed or lasered is very inexpensive. You don't want to know what it cost for us to do this...................but then, this is real checkering.
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The question of whether to checker, or not, is like two men looking at the same woman...Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder....No more, no less...I have several long guns and none are checkered except one by the factory...But then, mine are work horses, not show horses...

If I were going to have a company such as G A Precision build me my perfect dream rifle, yes, it would probably have a professionally, and elegantly, hand checkered stock, but then it would rarely be taken out of the safe and used (just like my Engraved S&W .44 mag that has never been fired since being engraved 18 years ago)...

To me, a plain wood that gets an accidental blemish, can be touched up pretty easily, where if the checkering gets accidentally damaged, it requires some specialty repair
 
In the eye of this beholder, redheads are beautiful.
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I have many different tools to choose from, some more "specialty" than others. All of mine are workhorses, hand checkered or not.


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No safe dwellers here.
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Originally Posted By: K22
No safe dwellers here.
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Ditto......not using a gun because it's purdy is beyond my comprehension.
But then I love a nice piece of checkered wood but hate engraving so what do I know.
 
Boyd's 22 lines per inch checkering is very, very nice. I will NEVER order another boyd's stock without the checkering.

Does a 68 Chevy look better with or without hubcaps?
 
Originally Posted By: ackleymanBoyd's 22 lines per inch checkering is very, very nice. I will NEVER order another boyd's stock without the checkering.

Does a 68 Chevy look better with or without hubcaps?

In 68, without, but it needs to have chrome wheels.
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Originally Posted By: RePeteOriginally Posted By: K22
No safe dwellers here.
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Ditto......not using a gun because it's purdy is beyond my comprehension.
But then I love a nice piece of checkered wood but hate engraving so what do I know.

I like both engraving and checkering, but this is the first time anyone ever told me I shouldn't use something because it has one or both.

Putting lipstick on a pig and then declaring the pig to be useless seems like a lost and irrelevant adventure to me.
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Originally Posted By: Winny Fan

Putting lipstick on a pig and then declaring the pig to be useless seems like a lost and irrelevant adventure to me.
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Yea but there a lot of adventurous souls on the ol interweb.

As far as engraving goes, I don't really mind a little tasteful engraving on nice little SXS or even a rifle as long as it's not overdone.

The key words here being "tasteful" and "overdone".
 
I agree totally with "tasteful" and "not overdone".

Full cover engraving turns a nice gun into a pimp gun. That's not something I'd spend my money for.
 
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