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[Kestrel]

I recently finished this stock for my M1A. It was a blank I got as a preorder from SARCO before they started shipping finished M14E2 stocks. It was my first experience with carpentry and it came out better than I had hoped. It was first just plain white birch. I had to chisel out the sections to fit the action precisely and file down some spot where things were too tight, especially around the front ferrule. I stained it with a dark red oil stain, sanded the whole thing, stained it again.. and again. And again. I treated it with boiled linseed oil when all was done and this is the finished result.