Awesome, thanks for the feedback. After looking at some Walnut blanks, really nice/more exotic woods are about $1,000 and up per blank. So practicing on some older stocks is definitely a good idea. Looking into buying some machinery and putting a shop together, but starting small and cheap and working my way into something nicer is probably the best idea. Hopefully I will be able to pick up some loose parts/receivers this next gun show. Now that I've got the whole "tactical" ACR/AR-15 bull**** out of my system, I can start working on the fun stuff