Wood Stock Refinishing

Mid winter cabin fever..time to find a project :)

I was at an estate auction yesterday and picked up a gallon of Boiled Linseed Oil (BLO) for $2....nice find.

After all these years I have tried a lot of finishes on gun stocks but always go back to the linseed oil, especially on the wood found on the old mil-surp rifles.

So what do you guys use ? What has proven to give you the best feel and protection you want in a oil finish for your old woody ? ..LOL

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I like the linseed, I really wet it with that first, let dry for a couple days then keep adding light coats, about 6 in total with 0000 steel wool buffing in between coats, then to finish I use tung oil, 2 coats with a couple days dry time between coats

I haven't tried linseed oil yet. The last stock I did was all tung oil. I'll be starting one soon on which I think I'll try spar varnish (cut 50/50 with thinner) as a sealer and as a wet sanding media, then do a tung oil finish.

A French polish.

has anyone tried true oil

Exactly what you bought Mike, only I like to put it on warmed up and rubbed in real well. Let stand for a couple of days before using a fine steel wool before applying each additional coat.

I refinished several of my firearms with Behr Tung Oil. (now mfr discontinued due to VOC's apparently but I have a stash) More than pleased with the end result, very easy to apply and very easy to touch-up if it gets a scratch or something.

One of the main reasons for refinishing was to get to those areas that the factory avoided - like underneath the buttplate. Had water get under there on my Model 6 and it bubbled the high gloss finish.

Linseed oil is all I've ever used.

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Originally Posted by tom gobble

has anyone tried true oil

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I've used it on a few double guns as well as the inletting/barrel channels of rifles. I find True-Oil when applied via finger rub effectively seals up the pores in combination with the remnant of wood dust post buffing with 0000 steel wool. I hunt in the rain and snow.....Tru-Oil serves very well as a water repellant.

The following is an old Spanish 12 bore Parkemy my friend had picked up from Tradeex when they imported the very first batch of Basque guns some years back. It was in excellent shape end-to-end. However, over the years in and out of Grouse covers, the stock got messed up with so many dings/gouges that I could no longer bear it and offered to patch that up last year. My amateur efforts resulted in some really dark spots due to over staining (he had managed to create quite a few "shell craters" that had to be steamed out on the buttstock :)).

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The same gun in one of his trips last Nov ......
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Birchwood Casey True Oil works great. Has dryers in it and can be applied to a high gloss or satin finish.
I have used it on furniture as well with great results.
Stu