Bought a really rare Diana .177 prewar 58 third series years ago. It was an auction with pictures that were not that great. When I picked it up I saw that the stock had been sanded and refinished. That drives me crazy!. Well after working on it I find that it shoots at 9.5 foot pounds pretty good for that era. The wood is really very nice but the checking was sanded almost flat. I was thinking that given the lines are still there would it be possible for me (I have never checkered wood) to buy a checkering tool and just follow the lines to bring back the checkering? My thoughts are I hate looking at that checkering every time I pick up the rifle. If I try this my fear is I will just make it worse? Anyone tried this? Any thoughts? The last pic is from a 58 I just bought with checkering as it should be.
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