Perhaps my last post was not clear.  I would not cut up a good stock for a fore-end.  I would rather get a stock that was badly dameaged on the rear in the area of the butstock or receiver and use the fore-end of that.  Something that was un-savable but I could still use old wood.  Otherwise it will be a reproduction piece that will have to be made.  My gun is a model 1912 carbine so a full sized stock or one that has been sporterized will not work for me.  (My gun has been lightly sporterized and if it had not been, I would not be looking for a stock fore-end)  It has to be another late 1912 model stock to be rite.