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Post by BigDick on Jan 8, 2015 1:40:11 GMT -5
What do you use to clean, preserve, and treat the wood furniture (stocks, grips, etc.) on your weapons?
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Post by icedfreakintea on Jan 8, 2015 23:42:42 GMT -5
My brother does some Revolutionary War reenacting and they use RemOil wipes on their musket stocks
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Post by BigDick on Jan 9, 2015 0:49:32 GMT -5
So a wipe-down with a rem oil soaked clean rag is good enough.
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Post by CreepFinder on Jan 9, 2015 0:53:11 GMT -5
So a wipe-down with a rem oil soaked clean rag is good enough. Assuming Tea's advice was good, (which it usually is) you could use the Remington oil wipes Remington Oil Wipes |
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Post by icedfreakintea on Jan 9, 2015 1:16:35 GMT -5
That's just my experience with the matter, as much as I love a nice wood grain, all my funs are polymer :/
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Post by harrysrunguyfromo on Jan 9, 2015 19:45:24 GMT -5
Tung Oil, Put a little in your palm, and then rub the shit out of it, your hand should get hot when rubbing the oil into the wood.
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Post by BigDick on Jan 9, 2015 23:45:03 GMT -5
Was also considering tung oil. Would it effect the coloration.
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Post by harrysrunguyfromo on Jan 10, 2015 10:46:48 GMT -5
not positive because that is all I've used on my firearms, with wood, and that is what was used on them before I got them.
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Post by Bob McBobson on Jan 13, 2015 1:59:33 GMT -5
Blood of thine enemy works best
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Post by tupacserbia on Jan 16, 2015 1:23:53 GMT -5
Blast it with piss
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Post by meplat on Jan 19, 2015 20:18:09 GMT -5
What do you use to clean, preserve, and treat the wood furniture (stocks, grips, etc.) on your weapons? Depending on condition, you'll want to go slowly. Remove the action and as much metal as you can from the stock, and start with a toothbrush and a solution of Murphy's oil soap. This will help get the blackish-waxy mass of skin oil and crud out of the wood. Repeat til you can see the grain. Now, once the stock is clean, let it dry for a week (or four). Then gently go over it with scotch-brite pads. You can find very fine ones at janitorial supply stores, and they should look whitish. Unless your stock is thoroughly beat to shit, you should stay with these. Scuff the entireity of the stock, then wipe with a linseed oil soaked cloth. You want to replace the rag often as it will load with bits of wood fuzz and funk that the cleaning missed. Scuff, oil, then rest. This is not a quick process. Eventually you'll have a very even finish showing the grain of the wood, and you'll have saturated it with linseed oil. It will feel very smooth and silky, while showing off the grain structure of the wood. All you do now is keep it oiled and clean with a bit of flannel and some linseed oil. |
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Post by moobs on Jan 21, 2015 12:21:02 GMT -5
"meplat"
holy balls, is that the actual meplat or someone just using meps name?
not that i would trust the answer anyhow.
just wondering
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Post by BigDick on Jan 21, 2015 23:46:11 GMT -5
Remove the action and as much metal as you can from the stock, and start with a toothbrush and a solution of Murphy's oil soap. This will help get the blackish-waxy mass of skin oil and crud out of the wood. Repeat til you can see the grain. Now, once the stock is clean, let it dry for a week (or four). Then gently go over it with scotch-brite pads. You can find very fine ones at janitorial supply stores, and they should look whitish. Unless your stock is thoroughly beat to shit, you should stay with these. Scuff the entireity of the stock, then wipe with a linseed oil soaked cloth. You want to replace the rag often as it will load with bits of wood fuzz and funk that the cleaning missed. Scuff, oil, then rest. This is not a quick process. Eventually you'll have a very even finish showing the grain of the wood, and you'll have saturated it with linseed oil. It will feel very smooth and silky, while showing off the grain structure of the wood. All you do now is keep it oiled and clean with a bit of flannel and some linseed oil. Dude, this is a damn nice Marlin 30-30 lever action. My grandfather gave it to my father for christmas when I was around 8 years old. My father gave it to me for my 18th birthday. It's already in damn nice shape. It's not like I bought a beat to fuck nugget and need to strip the cosmoline and varnish off of the wood and refinish it. I want something to clean, preserve, and treat the wood. Not fully refinish a shitty rifle with shitty furniture. |
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Post by meplat on Jan 22, 2015 15:53:00 GMT -5
You did not say what you were starting with.
Anyhow, depends on when it was made. A lot of commercial arms from the 50's and later were using all kinds of finishes including varnishes and urethanes. You have to know what you're starting with.
If you know it's a plain oil based finish, just clean with some Murphy's and a toothbrush if it's really grimy, then rub in boiled linseed oil with a bit of flannel.
The other finishes you often can get away with stuff as simple as furniture polish or colorless furniture wax.
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Post by BigDick on Jan 22, 2015 16:20:53 GMT -5
You did not say what you were starting with. Good point. My bad. It has a hard varnish almost like polyurethane on it. I guess I'll find some good wood polish to go at it with. What I'm trying to accomplish is mostly to preserve it. Winter Olympi/k/s was the worst treatment the rifle has ever had. Even then I did my best to take care of it. The wood was a little cloudy once I finally got it home but that cleared up with a little elbow grease and some rem oil. |
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Post by meplat on Jan 22, 2015 16:38:19 GMT -5
Yeah, a high quality furniture wax is what I'd use, not that common spraycan stuff.
Minwax used to sell large tins of carnuba wax, if you can score some that's what I'd use.
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Post by mercenarymadman on Jun 26, 2015 22:24:35 GMT -5
I use Mink oil for my boots. But that's for boots and leather, not sure it would work on wood furniture
What about froglube? Or mineral oil? Hoppes No.9?
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