Continued from part 4
Stain used was Birchwood Casey Walnut and it went on really well. The old wood soaked it up, no issues. Applied, light sanding, applied again to get it a little darker.
Another coat of bluing to make sure I didn't miss anything, and some details on the other parts that I had previously steel wool'ed and used blue remover on.
The blue remover didn't do anything on the loading tube, so I ended up with rough steel wool and then sanding just to get it off. It was another really rough part but cleaned up enough to put new blue on.
I did a refitting of the parts after polishing and cleaning. I still have some work to do on the wood, oil and wax to make it shiny, but that will take at least a week or so from here.
So if your considering a clean up and bringing an old workhorse back to life, but have doubts of putting it off, hopefully this will help inspire you.
From the time I started into this, to the point I'm at now was about a week. I didn't have a lot of time over the last week to work on this, so it was really only about an hour a night to get it where it is now.
Even though it's not perfect, and it still has marks, scratches, and wear marks, it's like a brand new firearm compared to what it was and it's really awesome to see this play out on a 100+ year old firearm.
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Stain used was Birchwood Casey Walnut and it went on really well. The old wood soaked it up, no issues. Applied, light sanding, applied again to get it a little darker.
Another coat of bluing to make sure I didn't miss anything, and some details on the other parts that I had previously steel wool'ed and used blue remover on.
The blue remover didn't do anything on the loading tube, so I ended up with rough steel wool and then sanding just to get it off. It was another really rough part but cleaned up enough to put new blue on.
I did a refitting of the parts after polishing and cleaning. I still have some work to do on the wood, oil and wax to make it shiny, but that will take at least a week or so from here.
So if your considering a clean up and bringing an old workhorse back to life, but have doubts of putting it off, hopefully this will help inspire you.
From the time I started into this, to the point I'm at now was about a week. I didn't have a lot of time over the last week to work on this, so it was really only about an hour a night to get it where it is now.
Even though it's not perfect, and it still has marks, scratches, and wear marks, it's like a brand new firearm compared to what it was and it's really awesome to see this play out on a 100+ year old firearm.
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