Home Depot/Lowe's oils for finishing wood stocks?

[Garandimal]

Home Depot Klean-Strip BLO.






GR

[musketjon]

I use stain and then clear coat with polyurethane at home depot. It's more scratch resistant than wood oil.

Ain't tarring and feathering the proper punishment for this heinous crime? And then rode out of town on a rail, just for the humiliation factor?
Jon

[DennisCA]

I use Tom's 1/3 mix on my milsurps

[Ishooter]

It's just a different taste. No right or no wrong. People have different looks on gun stocks all the times. You guys might think about the Garands. I think about the SKS look.

Not all non-traditional Garand stock looks bad. http://www.penturners.org/forum/f217...23/index2.html

[cmichini]

Mix equal parts Turpentine, bees wax and Boiled Linseed Oil. Heat it up and make "Culver's Magic Paste". Then store in a container.

Hand rub into the wood (the heat from your hands softens/melts the wax) then wipe off with a cloth.

Repeat once a day for a week, then once a week for a month, then once a month for a year.

Hand rubbed oil finish that looks pretty darn good.

Just a suggestion.

[Crocketus]

Home Depot Klean-Strip BLO.






GR

Seconded. Fine stuff for hand rubbing in.

[Garandimal]

Seconded. Fine stuff for hand rubbing in.

Put on a coat, and then put the stock out in the hot sun... and watch that BLO percolate into the wood.

It will get too hot to touch very quickly, so be careful. Really takes it in.

I have an old USGI stock from a Service Grade Garand that had some damage. Looked like they used a body-grinder to remove something carved into the butt.

I sanded/blended it out, and it disappeared, except for the palm-sized bare spot in the middle of that old RLO finish.

Three coats, left in the sun for ~ 20 minutes each, penetrated and caramelized to match the old.

Can't hardly tell there was ever a problem by just lookin...




GR

[eth727]

Would it be the same for a M1 carbine?

[23 Blast]

Out of curiosity - do you also put oil into the inside of the stock? Meaning, remove the barreled action from the stock and then also oil finish the parts of the stock that would normally be invisible when the rifle is assembled?

Why or why not?

[Hundids]

Out of curiosity - do you also put oil into the inside of the stock? Meaning, remove the barreled action from the stock and then also oil finish the parts of the stock that would normally be invisible when the rifle is assembled?

Why or why not?

I did this on my Chinese SKS. The reason being is that I had to use hot water and a mild degreaser on the wood, as all surfaces of the wood got stripped of oil. I third the Home Depot Kleanstrip BLO. It even has a directions box on the back for gunstocks.

[reverser]

Polyurethane over a dewaxed shellac base coat works well. It is durable and can take the heat. Without the shellac you may have problems with the poly curing due to the oils in the wood. The base coat of dewaxed shellac solves that problem.

[23 Blast]

I did this on my Chinese SKS. The reason being is that I had to use hot water and a mild degreaser on the wood, as all surfaces of the wood got stripped of oil. I third the Home Depot Kleanstrip BLO. It even has a directions box on the back for gunstocks.

This suggests, then - that we should also treat the inside of the stock, as I'm not sure of the inside of the stock gets any finish when it comes from the factory (please correct me if I'm wrong). In any case, I used BLO on my Mosins (Finns, mostly) inside and out because the insides looked very parched.

[adamjay]

My preference is Raw Tung Oil from http://www.realmilkpaint.com
I go inside the stock as well, mostly to get the weather protection, but I also find it's easier to treat a stock without the metal in place. You can slurry sand it to fill the wood pores if that's the look you like.

Tung and Linseed have both been used on USA arms traditionally. I think it is well documented that Tung provides superior waterproofing to Linseed (though not outstanding compared to tru-oil or poly)

I've also been playing around with Swedish Pine Tar cut with real turpentine - looking for high weather resistance. Not at all a "correct" look on a Garand.

For the small amount of oil one uses on a stock, I like to get the best quality oils I can find.

Grease of Black Bear cut with walnut oil and terpene of Juniper, perhaps?

[Crocketus]

Out of curiosity - do you also put oil into the inside of the stock? Meaning, remove the barreled action from the stock and then also oil finish the parts of the stock that would normally be invisible when the rifle is assembled?

Why or why not?

It's good for it and does not damage the metal so I would definitely recommend.

[thomashoward]

Good job on the refinished stocks.Nice grain from something resembling firewood
Formby's Tung Oil semi gloss
thin the first coat to soak INTO the wood.Especially the barrel channel.