Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 1973
Location: Maine
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I'm sure a butt plate could be made on a 3D printer, but it surely would not be a suitable match for a 100 year old gun.
Horn is available, but it's a real pain to work with. Smells, balks at being shaped. It's #1 good quality is it's relatively soft, so it's easy to work.
Still, my friend the gunsmith avoids it and works in ebony instead. Which, when you consider how hard ebony is and how expensive and how difficult to work, should tell you something about his distaste for horn.
From your pic, it seems to me your complaint about the existing horn buttplate is cosmetic. It looks perfectly usable as is. YMMV. |
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