Well with my stock finally on the way from the USA Im looking at the various finishing methods to make it look as realistic as possible.
Thinking about some birchwood casey walnut stain. Used it on air rifles before and it looks lovely. Also have some colron dark oak oil stain but not sure it'll be dark enough.
That bits easy enough but not sure how to finish after that. Should I spray on a fine coat of varnish for protection or is that not exactly authentic? My usual finish would be a few coats of danish oil followed by some buffed bees furniture wax to take the shine off. but not sure thats hard wearing enough for airsoft.
Anyway what would you all recommend?
Stain it, then oil it. No varnish required - unless its Ruskie guns, where they tended to whack large amounts of thick varnish on the wood.
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oil as in something like danish oil? as that tends to make the stock very shiney. also can you recommend a stain?
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I use Boiled linseed oil, if the stock is hard wood you may not need stain just oil, see what colour it is when you get it, you rub it on with a lint free cloth & let it dry over night & the put more on till u get the desired result, remove oil stains with a hair dryer to warm the wood while wiping the wood with a cloth, remove dents by putting a fairly damp smooth lint free cloth over the mark & holding a hot iron it, only takes a few seconds, if u want to stain it try somthing like ronseal wood stain in the shade you like,
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Stain it, then oil it. No varnish required - unless its Ruskie guns, where they tended to whack large amounts of thick varnish on the wood.
My Mosi carbine deac is just oiled, by the looks of it, no varnish at all, so i guess like pretty much all wartime production, it just depended on what was available on the day?
oiled with what though? heh. Linsead Oil just tends to bring out the grain as opposed to stain. where as something like danish oil will leave more of a barrier coating over the stock but will make it shiney
thanks steve
Mosin Nagants were mostly shellaced as far as I know.
American arms were covered with boiled lineseed oil.
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A warning about Boiled Linseed Oil. Do NOT stick BLO soaked rags into a bin. They can self combust. (no joke, ive seen the results of this at first hand, when some muppets I work with didnt read the Materials Safety Data Sheet)
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thanks for the tip 
I've seen it happen with other soaked rags in the past
