John, I'm not seeing your point.
I know that alot of the carbine communitee would have "NO" problem putting a flip sight on a carbine that the "government" had upgraded to an adjustable sight. There has been discussion on this forum about it being O.K. with the use of JB weld to fill holes.
I took a stock that was toast. Fix the broken parts, and gave it a try to restore the highwood.
I have stocks that were repaired at manufacture and at rebuild. Some would be concidered top notch and others Friday night specials.
I'll put up a pic of an IBM poorly cut down highwood in the morning, and would like your imput on it, as to leave it's "history" or make it look good for my IBM rebuild.....Frank