I have bought wood from several different companies. I have to say of the stocks I have purchased from Pecatonica I feel like I have gotten better wood than I paid for. I ordered a Rigby Precarve in plain maple with the intention of staining it too look like English Walnut which I told them what I intended to do. Well the stock I got had nice curl all the way through it. I would have felt silly sending the stock back because the wood was too nice. Currently Have a stock from them for my next project that I picked out of their seconds bin at friendship that was marked a CM2. I can find nothing on that stock that I would consider a flaw and it has a wild combination of curl and quilted wood the entire length of the stock. I think it will make a beautiful rifle.