Thread: Filling open grain on stock on the cheap

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

The (real) old-timers used to say that a stock should be oiled once a day for a week, once a week for a month, once a month for a year, then once a year forever.
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And many of them did it with tung oil which has a natural drying element to it and is one of the best oils to use to sand into the pores to fill the grain and as @gundoc says wiping the surplus across the grain although I use a paper towel now. There are quicker way to finish rifle stocks now although I have done them with straight tung oil for myself.