WASR wood refinish does not match...help

ak shooter762 · 10-02-2009, 01:35 AM

ive been working on it for a week or to now and all three pieses do not match at all. first i took the lower handgaurd off and sanded it with 100gt sand paper then 150 then 220. then i put on a coat of minwax polyshades (honey pine) lets it dry for about 12 hrs then put the 0000steel wool on it and one more coat and i love the way it looks, it a blonde color. but when i did the same thing to the upper handgaurd it ended up having a light light red tint to it....i can deall with that, but when i did the samething to the buttstock it ended up being dark brown compared to the lower hand gaurd.i really want the stock to match the handgaurd blonde color i really like it, does anyone kno what i need to do to get it to match, and what i will need to do it?

pico · 10-02-2009, 11:23 AM

I had a similar problem when I refinshed an ak furniture set. I gave up on the light color I was using and bleached the pieces after sanding all of the newer finish off. Then I used a darker color... more red than brown. I forget the color name, but was Cabot. This did not work too well either, so I wiped off as much stain as I could and used the Black Stain, which matched the grains to one color(black), but left the wood still fairly light and uneven. Then I went back with the red stain and applied several coats. If I did it again, I would simply sand the finish off, stain it black, and then stain it a darker tint. I think the problem I had was the parts were laminate. The laminate materials were likely different woods, so they have different characteristics. It would be like applying the same stain to pine and oak, and then seeing the difference.

azguy · 10-03-2009, 03:05 PM

Poor stock quality is one of the halmarks of the WSAR-10. Proof you have an authentic WSAR-10. I used minwax colonial red on mine it was just dark enough to match the wood and hide the blemishes of the wood, but still bring out the wood grain. I sold it and now regret selling it.

PSLMAN · 10-04-2009, 08:39 AM

^That's about the nicest looking wood I've seen on a WASR, too bad you sold her.

just_a_car · 10-04-2009, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by PSLMAN

^That's about the nicest looking wood I've seen on a WASR, too bad you sold her.

+1. Definitely keeping that color in mind for when I stain my AES-10a's RPK-style buttstock.

tommy · 10-04-2009, 12:17 PM

dat show is a nice red color makes me wanna start sanding again. have you ever tried to paint the wood black then sand it down a bit then stain it . it's looks really neat lookin i'll take a few of my sar1 and post them.[/B]

10-02-2009, 01:35 AM	#1
ak shooter762 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: North Carolina Posts: 127	WASR wood refinish does not match...help ive been working on it for a week or to now and all three pieses do not match at all. first i took the lower handgaurd off and sanded it with 100gt sand paper then 150 then 220. then i put on a coat of minwax polyshades (honey pine) lets it dry for about 12 hrs then put the 0000steel wool on it and one more coat and i love the way it looks, it a blonde color. but when i did the same thing to the upper handgaurd it ended up having a light light red tint to it....i can deall with that, but when i did the samething to the buttstock it ended up being dark brown compared to the lower hand gaurd.i really want the stock to match the handgaurd blonde color i really like it, does anyone kno what i need to do to get it to match, and what i will need to do it?

10-03-2009, 03:05 PM	#3
azguy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Yuma, AZ Posts: 308	Poor stock quality is one of the halmarks of the WSAR-10. Proof you have an authentic WSAR-10. I used minwax colonial red on mine it was just dark enough to match the wood and hide the blemishes of the wood, but still bring out the wood grain. I sold it and now regret selling it. Attached Thumbnails

10-04-2009, 08:39 AM	#4
PSLMAN Square peg in round hole. Join Date: May 2008 Location: Rheas Mill, Arkansas. Posts: 2,899 Blog Entries: 2	^That's about the nicest looking wood I've seen on a WASR, too bad you sold her. __________________ A normal man finds ways to avoid zombie situations. PSLMAN finds ways to get into zombie situations.

10-04-2009, 12:17 PM	#6
tommy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: schriever la Posts: 4,970	dat show is a nice red color makes me wanna start sanding again. have you ever tried to paint the wood black then sand it down a bit then stain it . it's looks really neat lookin i'll take a few of my sar1 and post them.[/B] __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

10-02-2009, 11:23 AM	#2
pico Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 382	I had a similar problem when I refinshed an ak furniture set. I gave up on the light color I was using and bleached the pieces after sanding all of the newer finish off. Then I used a darker color... more red than brown. I forget the color name, but was Cabot. This did not work too well either, so I wiped off as much stain as I could and used the Black Stain, which matched the grains to one color(black), but left the wood still fairly light and uneven. Then I went back with the red stain and applied several coats. If I did it again, I would simply sand the finish off, stain it black, and then stain it a darker tint. I think the problem I had was the parts were laminate. The laminate materials were likely different woods, so they have different characteristics. It would be like applying the same stain to pine and oak, and then seeing the difference.