cartridge94 Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Hello Chaps.I am thinking of refinishing the stock and fore end on my Baikal Model 27.I have seen Tru-Oil on youtube and it looks like it gives a top quality finish if you are prepared to put the hours in.Have any of you fellows had an experience with Tru-Oil? Do you think it would work well on a Baikal Stock?Cheers Cartridge94 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Tru oil has IMHO no place need any sort of gun got for chisel handle though. I'd make sure your Biakal has a walnut stock before you start lots where/are beach and need slightly different approaches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartridge94 Posted January 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Tru oil has IMHO no place need any sort of gun got for chisel handle though. I'd make sure your Biakal has a walnut stock before you start lots where/are beach and need slightly different approaches. cheers matey I think it is beech as it was made in the USSR so pre 1991. its absolutely solid. What other approaches would you recommend for beech? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Beech is very difficult...near impossible to stain and get the colour right.......i have toyed with the idea of using a pre-stained expensive boat varnish......strip the stock dry it in the airing cupboard ..sand it....first coat cut back by 50%...dry and sand 2nd coat same again....3rd coat cut back 20% dry and sand then eventually end up with a finish which is not too thick but has soaked in to the wood..........i will try it one day and see what results........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 But it will only ever be a bit of beech, NOT a nice piece of walnut. Baikals are not meant to be pleasing to the eye, they are workhorses that will go on forever if looked after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buze Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 I used stained danish oil with great success on guitars. You can get a few colored ones, like yellow/blond or redish etc; in which case you stain the finish, not the wood so it works pretty evenly. Danish oil makes a great finish -- with proper curing it is very, very solid stuff. Before/after pics. Mind you it took at least 5+ coats on this one...and it took a couple of months for it to be /truly/ bulletproof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwade545 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 On air guns I have stripped and found to have beech stocks I have like mentioned above used Danish oil- think it was mahogany. Lots of work,coat wait few days, then cut back with wet and dry and repeat with gradually fined grades of paper till get the finish I was after then dry for few weeks and light rubbing with rotten stone to take some of the sheen off. Give yourself plenty of time- the coats feel dry after 1-2 days but need much longer to actually dry. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted January 11, 2016 Report Share Posted January 11, 2016 With beach there are 2 real options as staining is very problematic a tinted oil like the Dannish oil talked about above or a tinted lacquer sprayed on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rst1990 Posted January 15, 2016 Report Share Posted January 15, 2016 On my baikal I used birchwood casey walnut stain, I put it on neat as I wanted it stained darker and then topped it off with tru oil. I used 1200 wet and dry between coats for a even finish. came out really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scouser Posted January 16, 2016 Report Share Posted January 16, 2016 Don,t give a toss about it not being walnut, it was worth the time and effort to get it looking like that well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subsonicnat Posted January 16, 2016 Report Share Posted January 16, 2016 2nd that,I have loads of tru oil stocks,never had a complaint yet. Look at that gun a week ago with oil stock,from new, leaked like a sive. Bit of wax on tru oil had rubbed,the water cannot penetrate it.. As said what you want and are pleased with is all that counts.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Livefast123 Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 I've used Tru-oil to refinish a number of gun stocks and have been nothing but pleased with the results given my skill level. You can use the BC stock conditioner or 0000 wire wool to give a satin \ Matt finish if you don't like shiny shiny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) I've used Tru-oil to refinish a number of gun stocks and have been nothing but pleased with the results given my skill level. You can use the BC stock conditioner or 0000 wire wool to give a satin \ Matt finish if you don't like shiny shiny. I've used tru oil a couple of times too, and at the time I was very impressed with how easy and quick it was to get a good finish BUT after using boiled linseed oil on a couple of other stocks I released what a difference it makes. I'd now rather do it slowly but properly with oil than fast and glossy with tru oil. These were walnut stocks btw. Edited January 23, 2016 by FalconFN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impala59 Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Spectacular! love a Tele, had to sell my one-off Graham Parker pair of guitar and bass in a time of extreme poverty, like guns sold and regretted, are musical instruments, I miss them too much and to replace them would be impossible. Do you build from scratch? I used stained danish oil with great success on guitars. You can get a few colored ones, like yellow/blond or redish etc; in which case you stain the finish, not the wood so it works pretty evenly. Danish oil makes a great finish -- with proper curing it is very, very solid stuff. Before/after pics. Mind you it took at least 5+ coats on this one...and it took a couple of months for it to be /truly/ bulletproof <script pagespeed_no_defer="">//=d.offsetWidth&&0>=d.offsetHeight)a=!1;else{c=d.getBoundingClientRect();var f=document.body;a=c.top+("pageYOffset"in window?window.pageYOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollTop);c=c.left+("pageXOffset"in window?window.pageXOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollLeft);f=a.toString()+","+c;b.b.hasOwnProperty(f)?a=!1:(b.b[f]=!0,a=a<=b.e.height&&c<=b.e.width)}a&&(b.a.push(e),b.d[e]=!0)};p.prototype.checkImageForCriticality=function(b){b.getBoundingClientRect&&q(this,b)};h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality",function(b){n.checkImageForCriticality(b)});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkCriticalImages",function(){r(n)});var r=function(b){b.b={};for(var d=["IMG","INPUT"],a=[],c=0;c=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e)}b.g&&(e="&rd="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(s())),131072>=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e),d=!0);t=a;if(d){c=b.f;b=b.h;var f;if(window.XMLHttpRequest)f=new XMLHttpRequest;else if(window.ActiveXObject)try{f=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")}catch(k){try{f=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}catch(u){}}f&&(f.open("POST",c+(-1==c.indexOf("?")?"?":"&")+"url="+encodeURIComponent(b)),f.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"),f.send(a))}}},s=function(){var b={},d=document.getElementsByTagName("IMG");if(0==d.length)return{};var a=d[0];if(!("naturalWidth"in a&&"naturalHeight"in a))return{};for(var c=0;a=d[c];++c){var e=a.getAttribute("pagespeed_url_hash");e&&(!(e in b)&&0=b[e].k&&a.height>=b[e].j)&&(b[e]={rw:a.width,rh:a.height,ow:a.naturalWidth,oh:a.naturalHeight})}return b},t="";h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.getBeaconData",function(){return t});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run",function(b,d,a,c,e,f){var k=new p(b,d,a,e,f);n=k;c&&m(function(){window.setTimeout(function(){r(k)},0)})});})();pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run('/mod_pagespeed_beacon','http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=e39a0ba083b44be6e72b58b203752efd&app=forums&module=ajax§ion=topics&do=quote&t=328043&p=2976326&md5check=bf128d0ecca97bef382be520e00d4ed8&isRte=1,B6nXayd9mu,true,false,fwFiK9aij3M');//]]></script> &&0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 i think you have made a cracking job of that................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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