Cooey/Winchester 64A wood ?

kamlooky said:
Leather dye and it's grape......... :D
Here is another winter project, just need to try it out.

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OMG , I love that one !
Btw , was it Fiebings leather dye ? Used a huge amount of it in my last career as a costumer .
 
1963beretta said:
No Problem bud.....im just in the process of redoing a stock myself. I wouldnt mind seeing your finished product
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If I can ever post a pic , I will !
Mine is more antiqued then even color . It's different , I'll see if I like it once I've taken it outside to shoot next weekend .
 
Dagmaar said:
OMG , I love that one !
Btw , was it Fiebings leather dye ? Used a huge amount of it in my last career as a costumer .
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No idea........the kid has two 12 packs. One 12 pack was thick gewy chit which I didn't like using.
The other stuff was more like normal stain. Thick, but not gooey.
That grape was testing my patience. It was hard to move around on the wood, so I was scared it was
going to get blotchy. I let it dry and then lightly sanded it. Next coat went on easier. I guess the wood
pores had their thirst almost quenched.
This is True Oil on the one just above. I tried putting Varathane Pure Oil on it and it lifted the stain
a wee bit on the right front fore wood. A little lumpy. Looks like freckles if you look real hard on the top
photo. I was going to redo it, but I had enough of this one.
Need to go shoot four to test their worthiness.
This one will be on my table at our gun show in May. Not sure where to price it though.
I bought a new mag for it too.
 
kamlooky said:
No idea........the kid has two 12 packs. One 12 pack was thick gewy chit which I didn't like using.
The other stuff was more like normal stain. Thick, but not gooey.
That grape was testing my patience. It was hard to move around on the wood, so I was scared it was
going to get blotchy. I let it dry and then lightly sanded it. Next coat went on easier. I guess the wood
pores had their thirst almost quenched.
This is True Oil on the one just above. I tried putting Varathane Pure Oil on it and it lifted the stain
a wee bit on the right front fore wood. A little lumpy. Looks like freckles if you look real hard on the top
photo. I was going to redo it, but I had enough of this one.
Need to go shoot four to test their worthiness.
This one will be on my table at our gun show in May. Not sure where to price it though.
I bought a new mag for it too.
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Thanks .
That's really is beautiful wood .
The 64 I just bought with a period scope and a mag was 130.00 ,but the wood looked nothing like that beauty of yours . The wood is nice now , but still not as nice as yours . Whatever the high end is on them , I'd ask it if I were you .
 
kamlooky said:
This is how it looked like when I first got it.
Mostly, it's just a time thing. More time put into the project,
usually the better it turns out.
Time is something I have lots of.



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Lol , I can dig that . Time isn't really my thing right now as I opened a business in November and can finally say I've gotten my hours down to about 65-70 a week now . A year from now I'll have more time to strip wood ( it's quite relaxing actually ) on another project . I only put two layers of tung oil on my 64 and it looks pretty nice , not as glossy as the 60 I did a year ago that I put many layers on .
They are all unique though , and I really love wood , so I'm sure I'll have many more Cooeys in the next few years !
 
Late to a 64 party? That's not like me...I adore the 64's! I haven't had 2 stocks the same, and would guess they used different kinds 'o' lumber. From some of the beautiful figured ones (tjsudbury !!!) to blonde.

When I was a kid, I painted mine black, but then re did it a few years ago.








 
camster said:
That's pretty kind. I was shooting for a faux figuring...next time ( if! ) I'll use something much finer than a q-tip for applying the bleach n' stain.
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Hey , that's what's so great about these Cooeys . They are great for experimenting on as they're widely available and pretty darn cheap .
I think an airbrush might be interesting to try the bleach thing with , but there's nothing wrong with what you did there , it's unique and fun .
I really want an 82 full stock now .
 
I used some oil stain prep, and minwax gunstock (surprise surprise) for the stain.

The stock is very light colour to start, so the red tones in the stain REALLY jump out. I think I only applied two coats of stain, fairly lightly, and then rubbed it down with some extremely fine sandpaper to lighten it before the tru oil.

The grip area soaked up the stain like a sponge and didn't let it go. I wasn't about to go sanding the checks either.

I think this picture is after the first coat of stain.
 
kamlooky said:
What is this Min Wax gun stock product?
Photo of can svp........
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Gunstock is the colour of the stain (#231)
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Almost everything in the house is puritan pine, or golden oak.
 
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Haven't seen that one before.
Did you use the red can wood sealer first?
At least that is the way I interpreted what you mentioned earlier.
That stock turned out great.
Thanks for the stain photo.
 
Who would have thought the old Cooeys could look so nice.
I just finished redoing a beat up old Cooey Ranger single shot. The stock had been singed in a fire. The photo doesn't do the grain any justice but it does look nice. Lots of lindseed oil followed with tong oil
 
I'm in the process of completing a Cooey stock using the Minwax red mahogany #225. I'll post some pictures once its oiled up. But now that I've seen the colour of that Gunstock #231, I'm regretting my decision in using the red mahogany!

camster said:
Gunstock is the colour of the stain (#231)
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Almost everything in the house is puritan pine, or golden oak.
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1963beretta said:
I'm in the process of completing a Cooey stock using the Minwax red mahogany #225. I'll post some pictures once its oiled up. But now that I've seen the colour of that Gunstock #231, I'm regretting my decision in using the red mahogany!
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I used the red mahogany on my 64 stock for the stripes. A nice deep red stain, and stocks look good with it.
 
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