Wood Finishing techniques

[jrg]

can a laminated stock be sanded and refinished? I have one that has a few dings and scratches and would like to refinish instead of replace?

Thanks

[kslefty]

JRG, we meet again. A laminate can be sanded, reshaped and refinished. I have a friend who has taken the wide forearm off of 3 Ruger VT models making the stock more loki that of a VLP savage. The stocks do not accept stain very well though.

[jrg]

thanks for the info...after sanding could i just use tung oil or something.? I like the color it is. Im still interested in your stock though..just in case i mess something up. Im a mechanic, not a woodworker, hehe

[urbaneruralite]

Oil'll work if you have to sand. Sometimes dings will come out with a damp towel and a hot iron. Sometimes that clouds the finish and you still have to sand, though.

[pa_guns]

Hi

A lot depends on how good your stock is at the start. Files and scrapers are a good thing if the stock is not nearly done when you first start out on it.

Bob

[outlawkyote]

  Here's a new idea I had about finishing a hunting rifle. Its a cheap method and is very functional and looks perty decent.

  Take a wood stock of choice (mine was a cheap factory wood stock) and throw it into the sand blaster. Blast the wood just enough to create a rough finish and you will start too see the wood grain start to become exagerated. Try to get the finish as uniform as possable so you can paint a rattle can rough textured coat of paint on it.

  It turned out perty cool and has that rough surface so it wont slip in even gloved hands. Total cost was about 5 bucks because the stock was just an old stock from a donor rifle.

[louthedog]

  Here's a new idea I had about finishing a hunting rifle. Its a cheap method and is very functional and looks perty decent.

  Take a wood stock of choice (mine was a cheap factory wood stock) and throw it into the sand blaster. Blast the wood just enough to create a rough finish and you will start too see the wood grain start to become exagerated. Try to get the finish as uniform as possable so you can paint a rattle can rough textured coat of paint on it.

  It turned out perty cool and has that rough surface so it wont slip in even gloved hands. Total cost was about 5 bucks because the stock was just an old stock from a donor rifle.

That's interesting. I'm thinking with the right grain might even look great clear-coated.

[pa_guns]

Hi

Yes I do know just how crazy this sounds.

Ground glass in the finish will rough up the surface without making it look to awful.

Bob

[sgt_mike]

Mix Bone black with boiled linseed oil rub in with a burlap cloth redo until you get the desired grain and beaty the bone black will fill the pore and make the grain stand out. wait a day or two to tack off lightly sand with 1000 grit wet/dry or #0000 steel wool use a tack cloth reapply the bone blackand boiled linseed oil.
Mix up some beewax and Boiled linseed oil (try a one to one mixture on the beeswax and BLO over a low heat source) then apply once you get the desired look from the bone black and linseed oil. Again lighty sand with 2000 grit or #0000 steel wool tack cloth reapply place in the sun or a sunlamp to work into the wood when you apply this you should feel the BLO warm up

[MAGNUS]

For the experienced woodworkers what do you think of these products

http://www.howardproducts.com.au/products/orange_tung_oil.htm

http://www.howardproducts.com.au/videos/video8.htm


Was thinking of using it.

[Carphunter]

If you want to do non poly finishes on wood stocks, the C&R stock cleaning / maintaining thread over at parallax http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsforums.yuku.com/forums/101/t/C-R-stock-cleaning.html has a lot of good material.

Really good info...especially on doing Tung Oil / Tung Oil Finish work.

[hunter2]

 Has anybody ever tried putting a stock in a vacuum with lindseed or whatever to possibly get it through the wood? Was thinking it might work if the vacuum did not go too low.  Any thoughts?

[vermonter]

I think that Idea really sucks!  Sorry, couldn't resist.

[hunter2]

 Good answer!  I was hoping somebody had tried some of this in the past and tell me what to expect. Have some stock material ready to be turned into something useful.   Looks like it would completely saturate the wood - or - would the wood start looking like a marshmellow in the vac.? Is this the way acrylic is used in materials?

[charleslv]

never used a vacum. However I dipped a stock in a vat of heated tung oil for 12 hours for a garand to get that military look. All id now when it gets a ding is raise it with and iron and sand it.