Stiletto Null
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I'm planning a refinishing job for one of my Yugoslavian SKSes.
The wood is elm, AFAIK. Yugoslavians used elm for most of their rifle stocks, unless they used beech (eew...) or misc. "hardwood" (***?). It's pretty coarse (right side view of an SKS), with some rough patches and some relatively smooth patches. I think I can shiny up the smoother patches, and I want to "do something" with the rough bits.
I've already had success working on the stuff (I refinished an M48, picture 1, picture 2) using boiled linseed oil, 120~400~600 grit sandpaper, and some tung oil for the last coats.
I want to try adding in some crumbled artists' charcoal to the mix. My goal is to blacken some of the dark bits, and hopefully streak the rest of the wood. I'm not trying to uniformly blacken the wood, otherwise I would just paint the damn thing.
The wood is elm, AFAIK. Yugoslavians used elm for most of their rifle stocks, unless they used beech (eew...) or misc. "hardwood" (***?). It's pretty coarse (right side view of an SKS), with some rough patches and some relatively smooth patches. I think I can shiny up the smoother patches, and I want to "do something" with the rough bits.
I've already had success working on the stuff (I refinished an M48, picture 1, picture 2) using boiled linseed oil, 120~400~600 grit sandpaper, and some tung oil for the last coats.
I want to try adding in some crumbled artists' charcoal to the mix. My goal is to blacken some of the dark bits, and hopefully streak the rest of the wood. I'm not trying to uniformly blacken the wood, otherwise I would just paint the damn thing.