I did NOT do the carving on this stock. A friend of mine, Mark Anderson, did it. He also installed the plate on the patch box. I have NO artistic ability. It is great to have friends that do for a project like this. I was fortunate enough to get one of the first 25 kits that Jim Kibler sent out, in fact this kit had the scribed number on the bottom flat of the barrel and on the parts bag as #1. Mark carved the stock very close to the carving Jim did on his bench copy of the original Woodsrunner.