I've finished putting the "Bargain Carbine" back in shape, with the exception of either finding an Inland stock in decent shape, or putting on a Fulton Armory stock (a shame since it has an Inland marked handguard). The stock is a heavily sanded Johnson Lounge Co. stock that was the recipient of my first attempts at Carbine stock repair. There were a couple of cracks in it, but it was easier to repair this one than the FAT stock that I had on it, which was heavily cracked at the nose and beyond my amateur salvage efforts.

Your collective advice was good; why spoil a bargain in an expensive attempt to make it "correct"?