Looking for advice on value.

Herk1994 said:
You have to remember that 80 years of sitting/finger oils/grime etc also changes the original color, so that would be hard to visualize. It would have very sharp lines (such as those around the bolt cutout). Your cutout is rounded, which is always the first place I look for indication of sanding. Sandpaper has rounded all the nice crisp straight edges.

This wasn’t a question directed to me but I have a good example of a nice original stock on my 43’ JPS that is pretty darn close to being in unissued condition, at least after it was reworked and put on this rifle.

Even this stock, as clean as it is shows its age.

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Thanks!
 
"Buy the gun not the story" certainly holds true" Read some real knee-slappers in the past. The sanded stocks so often seen piss me off the most. Wouldn't just wiping them down be much easier than using a belt sander or Brillo? Never could figure out why some can't leave well enough alone! Guess too many ambitious sh**heads out there.
 
Remfan said:
"Buy the gun not the story" certainly holds true" Read some real knee-slappers in the past. The sanded stocks so often seen piss me off the most. Wouldn't just wiping them down be much easier than using a belt sander or Brillo? Never could figure out why some can't leave well enough alone! Guess too many ambitious sh**heads out there.
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People want their rifle to be pretty. Most people's point of reference for what makes wood pretty is furniture, and that means sanding and oiling and varnishing etc. This isn't helped by commercial guns leaning in the same direction, and everyone's buddy/uncle/grandpa/etc that has been around wood looking at the stock and saying "ooh tiger stripes, those will pop with some sanding and oil!"
 
I would agree on the stock being refinished. I still think she's gorgeous to look at and will make a fantastic shooter. I'd be proud to own that rifle personally.
 
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