WBP Fox Classic - Is this normal?

[SVT-40]

So you've never seen plywood before?

[plinker202020]

To be fair though, it’s not the “grain” difference that was weird looking, it’s the color, which my pics don’t really show. The top of the hand guard is so much darker than the rest it looks like they ran out of parts and went into a parts bin with different furniture. The Atlantic pics above have the bayonet...the top of the hand guard is close in color to that.

Like everyone else said though - it’s an AK so I’m not going to lose sleep over it. Can’t wait to get it out to the range to feed it some steel.

Would buy again - this was not meant to be a knock on WBP or Atlantic!

[toiletfighter]

Indeed

Chalk it up as a learning experience.

Some of my favorite AKM and AK74 rifles have the most mismatched and ugly wood. I love it

[ACfixer]

OP, to me that's kind of the "beauty" of an AK, they look like guns cobbled together for conscripts. Sure there are some higher on the pecking order, but in a strange way when it comes to garden variety AK's they look even better mismatched like that. If that one piece bothers you, order another for a few bucks. Then go take it out and blast it, then throw it in the bed of your truck. Get it dirty, give it some safe rash. Make it look like it came from a canvas tent in Nicaragua in 1984.

Then go buy this hat. https://realdealbrazil.com/product/Cuba-Libre/TRDCL

[BrokerB]

Wow... I would be very suspect of that FFL.. is this their first wood ak?!

[plinker202020]

Biggly impressed with Atlantic Firearms: just got an email from one of their team letting me know they’re shipping a new hand guard to my house today!

How’s that for customer service? This is the second AK I have bought from them - highly recommended!

[BajaJames83]

pretty normal. While the price of the budget AK has gone up significantly they quality is still a budget AK.

[ir0nclash86]

Sounds like riflegear.

What if that second handguard comes back even darker than your original.....LOL. hope it works out though OP.

[kcheung2]

If that mismatch is a concern, don't ever get a SCAR in fde, those 4 different shades of brown will drive you nuts!