Thread: wooden stock refinishing

no polyurethane finish is good as its a surface finish, if it gets a crack water gets in not out. birchwood casey tru-oil is great and they also have a kit that includes, stain. oil and wax. along with the correct wire wool etc

tru oil and amour all 50 50 mix you can finish a stock in a day.

Yeah tru oil for me stock came up real nice, been looking at logcabinlooms on you tube and he swears buy pine tar and boiled linseed oil 50/50 mix and apparently its what the Fins used to use on there rifle stocks. His guns look nice with a dark sort of finish.

here is me using tru-oil...
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...ock-how-18532/

That looks mint Gruntzer.

I will be using the last of the walnut stain I have so hoping it gets as dark as that. Will look nice with graphite black ceracoat.

Haha... so is driving instead of walking...

what about putting an oil finish on a laminate stock? is there risk of damage or de-lamination? i'd imagine the polyurethane would provide greater moisture protection.

I tried using tru oil on my boyds laminated stock since all the polyurethane was chipping off, but the oil got rubbed off on parts and the wood delaminated slightly after a few days hunting in wet bush.

just the answer i needed before going headlong into a harebrained home DIY....

Originally Posted by MDub

I tried using tru oil on my boyds laminated stock since all the polyurethane was chipping off, but the oil got rubbed off on parts and the wood delaminated slightly after a few days hunting in wet bush.

With BLO, how does it handle shit conditions like wet bush ?

If there has not been enough BLO used then you can get what I call leeching i.e. the stock will go slightly pale due the the oil getting wet and rubbing off. I used to put the oil on after I had warmed it up as it soaks in more quickly but it does take a fair bit of work to get a good oil finish, its not an over night job.

@Chop3r Thank you, do you recommend me look at that Scherell dark oil you mentioned to do a Brno ZKK601 stock? I would assume its beech wood? will that give me a better/durable finish than the BLO.

Your Brno should be walnut and yes it will give a better finish in a far shorter time, go for the dark oil. There is a bloke on trademe that sells it, $21, look in the firearms accessories

Legend, Thanks.

I can't stand tru oil. Nothing beats BLO for finish but it is time consuming. I have a bucket of genuine tung oil here which is supposedly superior but I always go back to BLO for walnut. My fox was blo finished Tim and it was always getting rained on. I like the ability to easily touch up an oiled stock too. If you want to see examples of it have a look in my safe next time we cross paths, every wooden stocked rifle or shorty I own is oil finished, some of them approaching 140 years old