So I have a K43 I'm cleaning up for a friend. Its been sitting for a long time in a basement and has some rust to deal with but other than the butt plate nothing serious. What it does have is a horrible duffel cut repair on the butt. The attempted repair involved a boat load of filler material and some brown stain/paint. The remainder of the wood is in good shape and I may be able to remove/reduce the brown coloring without eating into the wood and original finish but it will take a lot of time. The metal overall is going to clean up very well and does not appear to have any major structural issues. I need to clean more before I can see if just the butt was sanded and I would prefer to repair the butt than put a repop stock on it since most of it is good or better. I'm thinking of finding a crappy K98 laminated/cupped stock and use it as a donor for the repair piece I would need. Has anyone had any success doing that. Its a duffel cut and I can certainly do a far better repair than what on there now with a K98 with similar laminate pattern would be used... Thoughts?