Stock Refinish Crash Course

Here is a quickie on tips for refinishing a stock. Its a pretty quick run down on the processes I used to refinish two stocks on my carbines. The red one is a Mosin Nagant Romanian M44 done in a Minwax 222 Sedona Red stain with a Minwax Polycrylic clear coat. The other in a natural color, is a Steyr M95 Straight Pull Stutzen Carbine finished with 3 coats of Boiled Linseed Oil (BLO). Questions, comments, suggestions, additional tips/hints, hit up the comment field. If you like what you see, rate and subscribe. Requests? I'd be happy to see what I can do about fulfilling any requests of related nature. Thanks for watching!

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[StealthFire61]

Nice tshirt trick thanks! Also something I like to do is lightly burn parts of the stock to make darker zebra stripishish patterns then soak in linseed oil.

[MarshalZhukov]

@StealthFire61 Yea that looks pretty cool. I've never done it, but seen it done before.

[cptexas1]

I've heard "cold-bluing" should only be used for touch-ups, knicks, etc. A caustic salt/hot bluing is the only permanent method. I'd assume you'd disagree, but would like your opinion. Thanks!

[MarshalZhukov]

@cptexas1 Well for the person on a budget, cold bluing may be the better route. But, it's probably no contest that a caustic/hot bluing will probably last longer. If you do good prep work, a cold blue should last for a while, but it's also good for touch ups too. One can always heat the metal and add cold blue that way too. And cold bluing isn't that hard to do either, and can be added at any time if there are wear spots.

[bobbert890]

iron os for steaming out the dents in the stock of the wood and dont tell me yuo have a bucket of bioling water on the ground next to you and yuo have wd-40, kaboom and a scrub brush next to that in the vidoe i'm at 1:09 in the vdoe i'm just guesing what happens next i havent watched the entire video

[MarshalZhukov]

@bobbert890 I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I didn't use any boiling water, or wd-40.

[nongmin88]

@MarshalZhukov I think it's a fair observation about the motion. It's a nice video, but camera work can be distracting, something anyone producing videos needs to consider. Is there a reason to move the camera? If not might as well have a stable position. Then the viewer can concentrate on what you're talking about.

I didn't have any problem with your talking, though. Informative video!

[conciousness88]

@Southern661 or even some sanding.

[MarshalZhukov]

@everettwilliams31 If you're so dissatisfied with it, then perhaps you can do a better job at making a video on this topic. If you felt so sick so easily, then perhaps you shouldn't have watched any of it. The only way to distribute information is to talk. It would be more "boring" if it were all text, for example.

[everettwilliams31]

Just zoom out, that side to side crap made me seasick, and good grief talk, talk, talk, with brief episodes of boring.