Re oiling/finishing a stock

[kyska]

Hi All,

 

I'm having another go at re-finishing a stock. I bought a cheap cz452, purely because of some of the striping on the foreend, it really has some potential.

 

Now I'm no craftsman so could do with a couple of pointers.

 

I want to strip and re-oil the stock, it has a couple of deepish marks in it, some of them will iron out but some won't, should I leave them be and put up with them or try and fill them?

 

I used nitromors on the last one which worked well, but are there any other ideas? I use the nitromors and then cleaned off with white spirit, I did have to scrape a bits, very carefully not to injure the wood.

 

I like light oilled stocks, there is a pic attached of my first attempt on a cheap air rifle stock, I know its not everyones cup of tea being so light but I like it like that...but, just a bit deeper colour would be nice, so any tips on oils and technique would gratefully received.

 

I brought out some of the grain by rubbing down with a rather course paper until the wood went fibrous, moistened it and then very gently used a blowtorch from a foot or so away, risky but it worked!

 

Kyska

[arjimlad]

I'm in the middle of stripping the varnish finish off my AYA stock and giving it a nice oil finish. Nitromors seems to have done the job well, followed by a good rubbing with 0000 wire wool. I then used progressively stronger solutions of Van Dyck crystals to stain the wood to the desired tone. These crystals are made from walnut shells and dissolve in warm water.

 

As the stain is water based, it raises the grain and you can sand in between coats. I have then been rubbing in some stock oil with alkanet which I got from Ian Summerell on ebay. So far, so good... the great thing about the Van Dyck crystals is you can make as strong or as weak a stain as you like, from very light brown to black.

 

The very few small marks in the stock were not significant enough for me to want to iron them out or fill them. I know from previous experience that it can be surprising how much you can raise a dent using the wet cloth & iron technique.

[Shropshire_Lad]

Hi, my cz452 in .22lr had a few knocks in the finish so I stripped it off with nitromores. Easy enough but had to work on the checkering with a stiff brush. Never had to dye mine as the colour was good anyway.

Through being not suitable for my shoots it had to go and I swapped it for a Lanber shotgun, it too had a few dings so I stripped it and oil finished that, not as nice a grain as the CZ but a lot better after refinishing than before.

I did have to use some walnut dye here and there as it was a little light where i sanded some heavier dings out.

Next will be my CZ HMR, though it will have to pick up a lot more dings before I do it!

 

atvb Paul.

[kyska]

Now my cz looks very much like the forst pic, but with stripes all way down, like your last pic. What did you do to the first one?

[Shropshire_Lad]

It was finished with Trade Secrets Rapid oil, when done it was too glossy for my liking so I cut it back with the finest wire wool after a few weeks when totaly dry and hard.

 

atvb Paul.