Check out this poor last ditch. Should I strip the finish?

[69 Stang]

It definately is not a series 1. if it were a series 1 it would have all early features . This is a last ditch and looks to be a series 8 or 10.

[campperrykid]

Slightly off topic and I 'll defer to the recognized experts about the details on this:
My last ditch stock was built with a two peice forestock. At first I thought it was a duffle cut -- but the construction , wood grain , and assembly/disassembly procedure pointed to " designed & built that way ".
From what I gathered during research a few years ago , two peice last ditch forestocks are fairly common but not universal .
The pics look like a real duffle cut on that one.