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| Author: | bushido101 [ Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Not sure how to go about cleaning this one up !1! |
It's my great great great grand dad's English made 10 ga. double barrel hammer type percussion shotgun made in 1840. Someone in the past put a heavy coat of varnish on the wood and steel. I got it off the steel but I have not figured how to get it off the wood. The gun comes apart ok but I can't get the butt plate screws out, It has a hook breech that the barrels fit into and I can't get the screw to the breech section out of the stock after taking the barrels out. I might add the screws have engraved heads and very narrow slots and I don't want to bugger them up. Someone told me to use stripper on the stock but as I said I cant get all the metal off the wood. It has a nice looking checkered walnut stock under all that old yellowed varnish. I need your help guy's. Help me come up with some deas. I want to put a hand rubbed linseed oil finish on it. |
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| Author: | Amatikulu [ Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:04 pm ] |
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I have removed certain types of varnish from stocks by using denatured alcohol. It has no impact on the metal but you should re-oil it. |
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| Author: | bushido101 [ Mon Oct 01, 2007 8:42 pm ] |
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Well I took the stock off the old shotgun this weekend thought well I'll give it a try, I took denatured alcohol and a rag saturated the rag and started rubbing. It turned out to be shelac the alcohol took every bit of the shelac off the wood I was also able to clean out the checkering on the pistol grip that was filled with shelac with a old toobrush, and the acohol. The stock is completely clean and ready to rub on the BLO. I am a happy camper.   
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| Author: | Gatsby [ Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:49 pm ] |
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BLO as a finish seems to be a cure-all for all your finishing choices... I need to figure out how to finish my mauser... As for the varnish... I think I heard mineral spirits once for that... Here is an article that might give you some ideas hope it helps |
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| Author: | bushido101 [ Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:06 pm ] |
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Good article on wood work there. I'll prob. use linseed oil on the on this shotgun stock since the gun was made in 1840, I imagine it originally had a linseed oil finish. |
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