GunnyUSMC
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Just a little cleanup is what I was asked to do on these two shotgun stock sets. They are from some old prison shotguns that a friend of mine picked up. I don’t remember the model.
I was asked to just clean them up so that they would look good with the new park finishes that the guns were getting.
I decided to strip and clean the stocks and then apply a BLO finish.
This is what I started with. Someone had already started on them and the one on the left was a mess.
I started off with stripping with Klean Strip stripper.
I can no longer find The Tilex cleaner that I like to use so, I got some Purple Power and deluded it for cleaning to remove the old oil in the wood.
The butt stock on the left was heavily oil soaked in the wrist area so I did a denatured alcohol soak to clean it up. I just put the wrist area in a ziplock bag and then taped it up. I let it sit over night then let it dry.
After the oil was all cleaned up, I Boned the stocks to get them smooth.
The only thing I did different on the BLO finish was a scrub coat on the second application of BLO. Basically all a scrub coat is, wetting some 0000 steel wool with BLO and rubbing down the stock.
I did the scrub coat because there were a few rough spots from where someone had scraped the stocks before I got them.
Here they are after I applied some Tom’s 1/3 Mix. It’s been raining and I wasn’t able to take pics outside.
The first set is the one on the left in the first pics.
For more deals on cleanup and applying the BLO, you can find the info in these two post.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/restoring-a-no4-mk1-enfield.825379/
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/a-little-road-trip-to-the-cmp-south-store.835226/
I was asked to just clean them up so that they would look good with the new park finishes that the guns were getting.
I decided to strip and clean the stocks and then apply a BLO finish.
This is what I started with. Someone had already started on them and the one on the left was a mess.
I started off with stripping with Klean Strip stripper.
I can no longer find The Tilex cleaner that I like to use so, I got some Purple Power and deluded it for cleaning to remove the old oil in the wood.
The butt stock on the left was heavily oil soaked in the wrist area so I did a denatured alcohol soak to clean it up. I just put the wrist area in a ziplock bag and then taped it up. I let it sit over night then let it dry.
After the oil was all cleaned up, I Boned the stocks to get them smooth.
The only thing I did different on the BLO finish was a scrub coat on the second application of BLO. Basically all a scrub coat is, wetting some 0000 steel wool with BLO and rubbing down the stock.
I did the scrub coat because there were a few rough spots from where someone had scraped the stocks before I got them.
Here they are after I applied some Tom’s 1/3 Mix. It’s been raining and I wasn’t able to take pics outside.
The first set is the one on the left in the first pics.
For more deals on cleanup and applying the BLO, you can find the info in these two post.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/restoring-a-no4-mk1-enfield.825379/
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/a-little-road-trip-to-the-cmp-south-store.835226/