Applying Raw Linseed oil to tighten my No4 forestock.

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My Maltby No4 has a "wiggly" forestock. I ordered some Raw linseed oil and await its arrival. The furniture needs to be stripped anyways. My question is how exactly do I swell the wood with Raw linseed oil to tighten up the forestock?

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Despite claims to the otherwise, I have never seen linseed oil swell wood. I conducted an experiment using blocks of wood, linseed oil, tung oil & water. Only the water had any effect. There is a waterborne linseed oil treatment that ikea recommends for their butcher block counter top that may help.
 
That is some beautiful looking wood on that rifle, what makes you think it needs to be stripped, other than the swelling of the wood?
 
How does it shoot all loose? You'd think the bedding would be way off like that? Theres lots of good Enfield wood info and bedding on The "Enfield accurising" channel on YouTube. I applied some of the tricks shown on the many videos and cut my groups right down and my wood has never fit better.
 
Strip it down look between the draws and see if it has cracked there.Check the front trigger guard screw collar it could be too long also and not allowing the wood to "slightly" crush against the bedding points.
 
Applying "Linseed Oil" will not tighten your stock. The forestock is not properly fitted. The draws are not marking contact (metal to wood) and needed to be replaced. May also be setting high at the knox. Two critcal areas for Enfield fitting. This job best left for the experts. Ron
 
Indeed, definitely something wrong. At the very least, the king screw should keep the forend from wiggling. One possible issue could be with that screw; I'm thinking that the spacer between the trigger guard and the action, through which the king screw goes, could be too long.

Lou
 
louthepou said:
Indeed, definitely something wrong. At the very least, the king screw should keep the forend from wiggling. One possible issue could be with that screw; I'm thinking that the spacer between the trigger guard and the action, through which the king screw goes, could be too long.

Lou
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X2 on that. The spacer would be what I would look at first.
 
I have it shimmed right now with a piece of brass between the triggerguard/magazine and the wood. This tightens everything up. Funny thing is it was nice and tight before I refinished it? I think it dried out too much.
 
While I'll start my post with "I'm no expert, but" I would doubt that the 70 year old wood should shink/dry out/ in the relatively short time you had it apart , assuming you didn't leave the parts beside the woodstove or beside a dehumidifier in that time. I would suspect something changed in the reassembly. If it is the original wood that you took off and are re-assembling, it shouldn't have changed that much. What did you do to strip and refinish the wood?
Vince
davemccarthy707 said:
I have it shimmed right now with a piece of brass between the triggerguard/magazine and the wood. This tightens everything up. Funny thing is it was nice and tight before I refinished it? I think it dried out too much.
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I disassembled it. Stripped the paint/finish off with circa 1862 stripper. Washed it off with water, let it dry outside for a day. Then I applied the finish. Reassembled and here we are.
 
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