I put a boyds pepper laminate thumbhole stock & forearmon my encore,I bought it unfinished the instructions boyds includes arefairly helpfuland from start of sanding to finishing the coats of poly-urethane in took right at a week. I have used it for a couple of seasons and I am very happy with its fit and the way it looks on my stainless encore 209x50 http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n172/lowtempguru/encore.jpg