Your opinion, my stock. - Page 2

marion57 · 04-17-2008, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Shuak

I have done some research in the last little while and I really like the way the tung oil looks and how you can easily fix any scratches. On average how much do I need to buy? Cost?

you can buy a quart at lowes for around 8 bucks .. should last you till your about 85

Shuak · 04-17-2008, 08:59 AM

Thanks Will do. I could spend hours at Lowes if not with the wife.

R5CYA · 04-17-2008, 10:57 AM

not fair. remind her about all the times she's kept you waiting outside the dressing room door!

Shuak · 04-17-2008, 11:17 AM

Yeah! I hate when she does that! We walk around Lowes or Homedepot or our local gun shop(this place has thousands of guns) and all she does is mutter under her breath and huff and puff. But in the end she does let me buy my rifles.

SwedeSteve · 04-17-2008, 12:15 PM

I just don't take her, she doesn't take me! We shop together for kids/grandkids only!

Shuak · 04-17-2008, 12:26 PM

She's needy. Where I must go she must go. Works the other way around too. She wants to be with me everywhere! I love her though don't get me wrong.

Geo M44 · 04-17-2008, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Shuak

She's needy. Where I must go she must go. Works the other way around too. She wants to be with me everywhere! I love her though don't get me wrong.

She's looking over your shoulder right now... right?

After 37 years my wife and I are still buds... but I kid her all the time, and she has come to tollerate my hobbies, and I actually like hers. Go figure.

Shuak · 04-17-2008, 02:29 PM

No she is at work but she reads this forum. I don't mind it so much. We have fun sometimes.

Cyrano · 04-17-2008, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Shuak

Will post as soon as it's done. Anyone know what color the bare wood should be when cosmo free? want this to be a decent refinish.

So many different woods have been used to make Mosin stocks, the correct answer to this question is, "Beats me." The Russian ones I've futzed around with end up a pale yellow, which I think means they are birch or maybe beech. I think the ChiComs actually used teak on some of theirs and that, post-Cosmoline, comes a light tan (if my SKS is anything to judge by; it has a teak stock). Legend has it the Remingtons and Westinghouses used American walnut. I won't swear to that, never having seen or handled one.

The only way to find out is to remove all the Cosmoline, lightly sand the wood with 0000 steel wool or 400 wet-or-dry sandpaper, wipe it clean and see what you've got there. If you don't like the natural tone of the wood, you can stain the wood with whatever color MinWax stain you prefer before you seal it with tung oil varnish/finish (the quart can of Hope's I bought 20-plus years ago to use on furniture I was restoring uses both words - go figure which one is 'correct!') or BLO (which I don't recommend because it takes so long to dry).

MinWax works really well on Mosin stocks. Somewhere back in the threads is one with photos of a restored M44 one of our members stained blue. It looks a lot better than you'd think, which tells you a great deal about the quality of MinWax.

It's your stock. Do what you want to with it. But post some photos when it's all done and back together, will you? I want to see how it turned out and what you finally chose to use on it. And I bet I'm not the only one.

Shuak · 04-17-2008, 03:30 PM

I have removed all cosmo and it is a kind of greyish tan wood. I am going to lowes tonight to pick up some tung oil.

Oh and I just noticed that the trigger and the bolt of my Izzy 91/30 have the Tula star on them. Also the bolt has an R with a circle around it. Isn't the R with a circle from Remington? If so why would there be a star and an R on it?

04-17-2008, 10:57 AM	#23
R5CYA Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, Republic of Kalifornia Posts: 632	not fair. remind her about all the times she's kept you waiting outside the dressing room door! __________________ *TROLL HUNTER!*

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SwedeSteve Bullet Maintenance !! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The anchor point, Alaska Posts: 10,300 Images: 1	I just don't take her, she doesn't take me! We shop together for kids/grandkids only! __________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers

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Shuak Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ctrl,alt,del Posts: 183	No she is at work but she reads this forum. I don't mind it so much. We have fun sometimes. Last edited by Shuak; 04-17-2008 at 02:33 PM.

04-17-2008, 08:59 AM	#22
Shuak Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ctrl,alt,del Posts: 183	Thanks Will do. I could spend hours at Lowes if not with the wife.

04-17-2008, 11:17 AM	#24
Shuak Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ctrl,alt,del Posts: 183	Yeah! I hate when she does that! We walk around Lowes or Homedepot or our local gun shop(this place has thousands of guns) and all she does is mutter under her breath and huff and puff. But in the end she does let me buy my rifles.

04-17-2008, 12:26 PM	#26
Shuak Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ctrl,alt,del Posts: 183	She's needy. Where I must go she must go. Works the other way around too. She wants to be with me everywhere! I love her though don't get me wrong.

04-17-2008, 03:30 PM	#30
Shuak Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: ctrl,alt,del Posts: 183	I have removed all cosmo and it is a kind of greyish tan wood. I am going to lowes tonight to pick up some tung oil. Oh and I just noticed that the trigger and the bolt of my Izzy 91/30 have the Tula star on them. Also the bolt has an R with a circle around it. Isn't the R with a circle from Remington? If so why would there be a star and an R on it?