refinishing a stock on an Anschutz

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I have an Anschutz 1415,1416 rimfire in very good overall condition.The stock has few deep scatches ,and I was wondering if I sand and refinish the stock if it will hurt the value of the rifle.Also in general does refinishing and rebluing barrels in quality firearms significantly decrease the value of the gun.
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Your rifle is not an item of interest to collectors as far as I know...
So refinishing the gun and improving it's condition will have no negative effect on it's value...
 
I'd have to agree with polaris.

If you don't do anything too radical (truck bed-liner, carved naked women) you can't do much to hurt the value.

Most of the guys that are willing to pay for an Anschutz, are pretty conservative in their tastes. If you stick to the basics, and do a nice job of it, you can't go too far wrong.

That said, there is a definite market for rifles with hot pink tigerstripe camoflage on them, so you never really know, do you? :)


Cheers
Trev
 
"...decrease the value of the gun..." That really only applies to milsurps. A commercial hunting or target rifle that has had the stock re-finished can enhance its value. An Anschutz 1415/6 isn't a collector's piece.
If the scratches are deep enough(gouged) to alter the dimension of the stock, in critical areas, after sanding, you may want to clean up the scratches, but not completely remove them. Mind you, if you sand so the scratch is gone, but with a long 'dip', so to speak, it won't matter.
 
Cornel
For removing the finish from the 1415 stock ,you may want to use furniture stripper. It works really well and saves having to go through a several grades of sanding. It also reduces the likelihood of removing excessive amounts of wood. If there are pressure dents in the wood after stripping ,you can use a damp cloth and a hot iron and steam them up. Lightly sanding between steams to remove the burrs of lifted grain. Sand finish then apply whatever
finish you like. Anschutz frequently applies stain to their stocks and to get a similar tone as the factory you may have to restain. If your stock has checkering you can either mask it off or use a tooth brush with stripper to clean up the checkering.
Typically with gunstocks - the more painstaking you are the better the result will be.
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Be aware that the wood used most often is a very light colour, like ash, birch or beech. If your stock is a darker colour, expect that to come off too.

(Yes I know Anschutz did make some walnut stocks).
 
Splatter said:
Be aware that the wood used most often is a very light colour, like ash, birch or beech. If your stock is a darker colour, expect that to come off too.

(Yes I know Anschutz did make some walnut stocks).
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Ditto that. And mine didn't take stain very well either. I should have used a tinted varnish.
 
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