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Padd2

hi lads any one have any idea of a nice way to cover up a few marks on my stock! it an old rifle and looks great but theres a few marks letting it down? any advice is appricated?

bravestar

Padd2 wrote: »

hi lads any one have any idea of a nice way to cover up a few marks on my stock! it an old rifle and looks great but theres a few marks letting it down? any advice is appricated?

Is it synthetic, wood, laminate???

Padd2

The stock is wood its a brno rifle

tac foley

Dings are pretty easy to get out using the damp cloth and a clothes iron - the heat raises the dented wood grain very well, providing you take care.

Scratches can only be hidden by sanding the stock surface down to a level where they are no longer a scratch, and then re-colouring the wood to match. Birchwood-Casey make a whole range of products for this purpose, as do the UK company of Napier. Your local dealer will undoubtedly be able to fix you up

Watching how Larry Potterfield of Midway USA does it on Youtube is a good place to start - there are literally hundreds of other posts there too.

This guy also knows his stuff - especially on refurbishing older guns like yours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Z_h76Sd1w

Hope it turns out OK for you.

tac

Padd2

the dings are ok as i like the look of an old rifle? the last owner had a sticker on the stock and theres an outline of the shape? any idea how to remove this??

tac foley

'kay. If it is an oiled finish then it's not going too much of a problem, simply a matter of using some very fine bronze wool, if you can get it. NOT steel wool as it leaves tiny particles behind that eventually turn black under any finish.

Any good gunstock oil - usually Danish oil or Tung oil will eventually tone in, given time.

If the finish is varnished, then I'm afraid that the presence of a sticker has allowed the wood around and underneath it to change colour over time, and the only cure here is to refinish that part of the stock to match the rest of it.

Again - Youtube is your friend here, as are Messrs Birchwood and Casey.

Not impossible, just needs some care and attention. When I did a couple of my stocks a few years back, I first practiced on an old airgun stock that I bought on e*** for next to nothing, then I knew I wasn't going to futz it up on the real thing.

tac

tac foley

I found ths one for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIDm_2lN1c

Note that it's in three parts.

I'll be doing another two-piece BSA Martini target rifle stock in a short while myself. We can all learn from the experiences of others. When I did my Walther DSM and Anschutz rifles a few years ago I had a wish list of stuff I'd like to have had handy - now it's all pretty commonplace. There really is nothing THAT new around, just that some previously highly-specialised materials are now commonly used in the kitchen!

tac

Padd2

tac foley wrote: »

I found ths one for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIDm_2lN1c

Note that it's in three parts.

I'll be doing another two-piece BSA Martini target rifle stock in a short while myself. We can all learn from the experiences of others. When I did my Walther DSM and Anschutz rifles a few years ago I had a wish list of stuff I'd like to have had handy - now it's all pretty commonplace. There really is nothing THAT new around, just that some previously highly-specialised materials are now commonly used in the kitchen!

tac

thanks tac ill be giving it a good once over tonight after work ! Do u think the use of small amounts of white spirits to remove glue from old stickers would be ok

Padd2

tac foley wrote: »

I found ths one for you - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIDm_2lN1c

Note that it's in three parts.

I'll be doing another two-piece BSA Martini target rifle stock in a short while myself. We can all learn from the experiences of others. When I did my Walther DSM and Anschutz rifles a few years ago I had a wish list of stuff I'd like to have had handy - now it's all pretty commonplace. There really is nothing THAT new around, just that some previously highly-specialised materials are now commonly used in the kitchen!

tac

thanks tac ill be giving it a good once over tonight after work ! Do u think the use of small amounts of white spirits to remove glue from old stickers would be ok

tac foley

Padd2 wrote: »

thanks tac ill be giving it a good once over tonight after work ! Do u think the use of small amounts of white spirits to remove glue from old stickers would be ok

Yes, it's a good start, providing that it's new WS that you are using, and that there are no scratches that it can get directly to the wood - mind you, you didn't say if it was oiled or varnished. The trouble is, that if there is any wood surface exposed under the glue then the WS will stain it horribly - any colour that it has in it will be drawn straight into the wood and cannot be removed without a thorough bleaching of the whole part. That's going to take some doing - probably involving the whole stock. If you email me, I can send you a pic of my Anschutz stock that was just totally stripped and oiled.

Even better at cleaning are any of the new-fangled lemony-citrus cleaners that have appeared in the recent past - no doubt Mrs Padd2 will be able to acquaint you with them.

If it's oiled and you use WS to clean off the sticky you're screwed - you have to start from, ahem, scratch, so to speak.

Let us know how you get on.

tac