"Of course. I can't imagine anyone doing any of that..."
I don't need to imagine it - I've actually had the result in my hands.
In an thread on restoring a "treacle rifle" I once showed how, with a little care this
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can be turned into this:
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But Bubba knows better, so he bead-blasted an entire '88 carbine, repeat entire - without dismantling it - and produced this:
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The tragedy is, that the wood had a perfectly healthy core, and could have been made to look like my previous example.
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Surely a prize exhibit for Bubba's Hall of Shame?