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I would leave it as is.  Reshaping teak stocks can have a lot of unintended consequences.  These Indian guns are oversized for a reason. It’s because the wood is low-grade. It’s very brittle and with a closed grain.  Well a lot of people on this forum will “quote teak for being exceptionally hard it’s also exceptionally brittle. It doesn’t have a good balance of hardness and toughness. Not like a walnut or a maple. Again, I would just leave it like it is.