What Finish Was Used

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I thin mine with pure gum spirits turpentine. I read on another site where thats what the British used to thin thier linseed oil.  Nice piney fresh sent too. takes some of the gloss out too

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mike16 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: June 19 2014 Location: Bisbee Arizona Status: Offline Points: 83	Post Options Post Reply Quote mike16 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 14 2015 at 10:12am
	I thin mine with pure gum spirits turpentine. I read on another site where thats what the British used to thin thier linseed oil. Nice piney fresh sent too. takes some of the gloss out too

Shamu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Logo Designer / Donating Member Joined: April 25 2007 Location: MD, USA. Status: Offline Points: 20510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shamu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 14 2015 at 1:37pm
	If you do end up with the finish getting too shiny after many coats you can re dull it without removing finish by rubbing with burlap or hessian.
	Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

mike16 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: June 19 2014 Location: Bisbee Arizona Status: Offline Points: 83	Post Options Post Reply Quote mike16 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 16 2015 at 9:09pm
	if you do dab a bit of linseed oil on your wood. run an oiled patch through the barrel befor and after you rub her down. I some how allowed some linseed oil to run down inside the barrrel. caught it befor it dried so it cleaned out nice and easy. had it dried it would have been a PITA to get out. had I not discovered it befor going to the range it would have been a PITA to clean out at the range and a short day. If I had not caught it it could have been worse. oil that barrel befor you oil the wood and run a patch down after you oil the wood. be carefull.

Shamu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Logo Designer / Donating Member Joined: April 25 2007 Location: MD, USA. Status: Offline Points: 20510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shamu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 17 2015 at 5:03am
	To be honest I removed the wood before oiling. I oiled inside & out for the week/month then reassembled & just oiled the outside afterwards. You could just poke a patch in the muzzle as well if you're worried about drips, but its not supposed to be that wet a process, a little & often is the trick.
	Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

W.R.Buchanan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: September 21 2014 Location: Ojai CA Status: Offline Points: 373	Post Options Post Reply Quote W.R.Buchanan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 30 2015 at 2:19pm
	I used Birchwood Casey Truoil on mine. It is some version of Boiled Linseed Oil and it dries to touch in about 2 hours and completely in about a week. IE it stops smelling. I also stained the fore end and handguard which are two completely different types of wood and not even close to the butt. Got the fore end and handguard close but the butt was Walnut and was much darker to begin with. The fore end was a lighter redish shade of Walnut and the handguard was Birch. it is easy to make the wood darker,,, it is not easy to lighten it. If it is too shiny for you some 000 steel wool will take the shine out. My last step is always Furniture Wax applied with 0000 steel wool. it leaves a durable satin finish. Lighting plays a big role here as well. Pics are unfinished, finished in the sun, and finished in the house. You can see the differences in the shades in the last pic. The only way your gun is going to come out looking like Shamu's gun is if all three pieces are the same kind of wood. In that case Birch. It is virtually impossible to match colors on different woods with stains. I have beat myself crazy trying to duplicate Turnbull's wood colors and matching stocks to fore ends. Finally they did a segment on "How It's made" on how they finish and match the wood colors. Long and short of it is they make the buttstock and fore end out of the same stock blank. That way it is no problem to match the colors as they are just applying the same coating to both pieces which are essentially the same piece of wood. I thanked him for that segment at the SHOT Show earlier this year, and he winked at me. Randy
	It's not how well you do what you know how to do,,, It's how well you do what you DON'T know how to do.

Shamu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Logo Designer / Donating Member Joined: April 25 2007 Location: MD, USA. Status: Offline Points: 20510	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shamu Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 30 2015 at 2:32pm
	"I used Birchwood Casey Truoil on mine." I tried it once. Either something was wrong with my technique or the batch. It literally dried in minutes as I was trying to apply it! I ended up having to remove the finish as it was so blotchy & replaced it with some "regular Linseed".
	Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

W.R.Buchanan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: September 21 2014 Location: Ojai CA Status: Offline Points: 373	Post Options Post Reply Quote W.R.Buchanan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: August 30 2015 at 2:47pm
	Shamu: Sounds like Bad Oil. Normally I put it on with a piece of Blue Paper Shop Towel and you have 10 minutes to smear it around and get the streaks out. When filling the grain I literally Spit shine it in with out the spit. IE circular motions until the oil is rubbed into the surface. Light coats only at 2 hour intervals until all the pours are filled. You put it on really light and rub it in and it is almost dry when you're done applying each coat. Then you do the once a day etc. routine. I use 0000 steel wool to burnish the last coat in between coats and knock off all the high spots. I have bottles of old stuff and as long as you store them upside down you never have a problem with the batch going bad. You store pry open paint cans the same way and the paint seals the lid and it doesn't let air leak in and evaporate all the VOCs they last nearly forever. Sounds like yours was bad from the start if it went off in 2 minutes. Randy
	It's not how well you do what you know how to do,,, It's how well you do what you DON'T know how to do.