Heres some more pics of the wood. Theres this one strip of .. i guess you could call it "curl" that starts at the back of the long and runs all the way to the rear of the nose cap, thats going to jump out with the stain and finish on it. Theres also this same pattern that starts at the rear of the cheek piece and runs all the way to the rear of the Tang on the upper top of the stock. On the stock, theres also all these dots and specks through out the entire stock, front and rear, bottom to top.

Got the rear plate figured out and may drill it soon and start carving. I'll need to trim metal off the plate to get a solid fit.






And this is all the metal on the right side that i will have to file off and repolish. Its not really that much but with handtools, this whats going to take a while.