Although I personally do not like the grit finish on Jims stock, I do like the stock itself and I buy the simi finished and inlet it in about 45 minutes, then glass bed it...I like the laminate stock as his pattern is my H&H drop box pattern..The laminate is preferable to me to a composite stock, which I hate..Plastic and SS are not my cup of tea....I checker the laminate at 20 LPI while soaded in hot stuff glue from Brownells..and finish it with Custom Oil from Brownells...It makes a real nice working rifle...