Just finished my latest project rifle

[UniversalFrost]

Here is the finished product of a lot of hard work. A Marlin 917V with a Boyds Evolution stock. I used Tru-Oil and hand rubbed 15 coats onto the wood. Also did a few things to the Marlin including a new trigger spring, stone and polish the sear to trigger engagement surfaces and shimmed the trigger to take out any side to side movement.

Only have to bed the receiver, but waiting for the tru-oil to cure for a couple weeks and hopefully my miles and gilbert bedding kit will be in (this stuff beats all other bedding kits hands down).

 

[cbrgator]

Looks fantastic.

 

[UniversalFrost]

thanks

the one pic with the close up of the buttstock shows some lint (the new finish attracts lint and dust like crazy). i might hit the stock with an anti-static sheet.

 

[shootr]

That came out real nice!

 

[UniversalFrost]

next gun is a model 70 winchester deluxe in 300 win mag. the stock had been poorly refinished a couple times and I had to use over 8 coats of paint stripper to get 99% of the finish off and then in a few problem areas I still had to hit it with sand paper. now just letting it sit in the arizona sun to bleach out any remaining oils (wrap the gun in towels or paper and put in a black bag and then put in sun).

the metal is getting reblued to a high luster bluing and I am trying to find a set of period correct iron sights for the gun (is drilled and tapped, but previous owner took them off and lost them). The winny also had a period correct redfield 3-9 scope the is in excellent shape. On this gun the stock is an older walnut with the red hue that you don't see much anymore on american walnut stocks and I am going to use some frombys oil to finish it and top it off with a couple coats of minwax helmsman polycrilic high gloss (waterproof and very protectice of finish, but looks sharp).

after that project I have a nice early bishop walnut stock (back when bishop owned the company still and had excellent missouri hard walnut stocks with fantastic grain) for a model 98 mauser that I am going to finish inletting for one of my GEW 98 mausers. a piece of wood this high quality would easily fetch $500+ from most stock makers nowadays.

 

[browningguy]

Very nice job.

 

[heron]

Shiny!

 

[EHCRain10]

Very nice!