Mosin Nagant

[bajabuc]

Ok...I'm tired of this rifle looking like a stepchild. I'm redoing the stock!

Edited May 4, 2011 by bajabuc
pictures...I hope

[Guest rebeldrummer]

keep us updated with some pics....

[LI0NSFAN]

I started mine yesterday. I am thinking black stain.

[Guest HvyMtl]

Can you show us pictures of its present condition?

Note: It the Shellac is globbed in one place and missing on the other, a simple wipe with rubbing alcohol should let you move some of it. (So I have heard. I have never tried.) Thought it sounds like your stock needs a heckova lot more to get pretty.

As for mine, I am keeping the old war horses as they came to me. I'll clean them and keep them well, but no modifying for me.

[Caster]

Brownells Whiting compound. It'll pull that greasy cosmo out of the wood so you can finish it right. Other alternative is a heat gun and acetone.....time consuming, but I have done it.

[bajabuc]

oven off and water...the stock had better be settled in it's ways...it's 80 years old...I'm pretty settled in my ways and I'm only 69...on Sunday.

[Caster]

HEY!!! Happy (preemptive strike:)) Birthday!!!

[bajabuc]

All these bald old men...lol

[texfrazer]

Well I'm only 41 and I'm bald too. Happy early birthday!

[bajabuc]

I'm old and hairy

[Tempest455]

I refinished all but one of mine. Mosinafficianados don't care for that kind of stuff but they are mine!

[bajabuc]

Metal is off...except for the sling slots...in the morning it's oven cleaner...two times...rinse...dry...sand with 600...wet...sand...wet...sand. Stain...nitric acid with steelwool. vinegar...HOT boiled linseed oil...beeswax.. reassemble...shoot I may try to fake a tigerstripe on the stock...maybe...depends on the wood.

Edited May 7, 2011 by bajabuc
felt like it

[East_TN_Patriot]

Metal is off...except for the sling slots...in the morning it's oven cleaner...two times...rinse...dry...sand with 600...wet...sand...wet...sand. Stain...nitric acid with steelwool. vinegar...HOT boiled linseed oil...beeswax.. reassemble...shoot I may try to fake a tigerstripe on the stock...maybe...depends on the wood.

Make sure you do some "after" pics for us to see.

[Parrothead]

Make sure you do some "after" pics for us to see.

agree....do it up nice and i may let you do a few for me (for $$)

[bajabuc]

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[bajabuc]

the yellow spots are ALL sawdust and glue. This stock is a MESS! No wonder the shelac wouldn't stick. The shape is major different now and II'm wondering id I need an ebay stock!

[Tempest455]

I've had great luck with Acetone and a rag on the stock (over and over) until clean. Once you are certain it's all removed, lightly sand with 200. Wipe w/ Isopropyl Alcohol and I finished in stain polyurethane. Before I put back together I used a Birchwood blue kit and re-did parts of the barrel.

I re-did the two on the right.

[bajabuc]

very nice...since I already have all the finish...and most of the filler removed I'm looking for my stain. I use gasline antifreeze to remove the grease.

[Guest HvyMtl]

Happy Belated B-day.

Yeah that stock needed serious help.

Looking forward to the "after" pics!

[Tempest455]

Please don't use gas to remove the finish! Flash point is way to low and that's how bad things start!

[bajabuc]

it's on it's second coat od linseed oil...looks pretty good for a real mess when I found the sawdust and glue. I even managed to "save" a couple of stock cartouches. There's one I have to look up...Circle with a 1 over 27 in it.

[bajabuc]

This gun doesn't deem to fit in any of the niches. The serial numbers match...but the bolt has a Tula star...so does the stock and it's assorted metal...but the mag trigger guard numbers match the rest. The stock still has the top butt arch but the bottom is almost straight. Once I got off all the "artificial wood" that distinctive belly was gone. I didn't take it down to smooth because it's a battle rifle so there's a couple of dents I'd prefer to call holes. The color is redder than the shelac but it looks ok.

[bajabuc]

Cooked the linseed oil soaked stock over an oak fire...hmmm...I should have had a BBQ while I was at it. It got almost too hot to handle. When it's hot you have to rub it by hand, over and over, reheating it and rub some more. The Rit dye looks great. the volitile oils evaporate when you heat it but the rubbing "presses" the oil into the grain and leaves a hard oil finish It still looks like a battle rifle but it's close to shelac red and I bumped it pretty hard against the door and didn't mar the stain. Tomorrow I'll get the ball and chain to turn on the camera and post pics. Just remember it's a battle rifle.