wayupnorth
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Northern Alberta
My very first gun was this Cooey Model 39 that i received from my dad 31 years ago.
I learned to shoot on this gun and i took it everywhere i went and had many great adventures with it while growing up on a central Alberta farm.
last summer i taught my 2 daughters how to shoot with this gun and i felt some pangs of regret while teaching them because the gun was so beat up. so last week i decided i would get one last winter project in before the law mower comes out and rob's me of my down time.
so, the Refurbish of the Cooey Model 39.
i went and picked up some spirit wood stripper and some tung oil, some steel wool and some sand paper and had myself some fun!
here are the pics of the project.
you'll note how the stock is completely butchered, covered in a million scratches.
we can thank living on a dirt bike and bungie cording the gun to the metal rack of the old Honda Trike for all those scratches.
here is a closer look at the stock
after being stripped and a uber light sanding
right in the middle of the first coat of Tung Oil
coat number 3 (while at work)
and the finished product!
and the happy recipient of all dads hard work
i followed the directions on the stripper can and tung oil.
brushed on the stripper (which was a all natural spirits one)
used a brush to take it all off once it bubbled up.
after it was all cleaned up i gave it a quick pass with some 80, 120 and 220 grit sand paper just to take off the deep scratches.
took all of about 1 minute for all 3 papers. i literally just gave about 2 strokes per grit per side as i didnt want to kill any of the lines of the stock.
application of the tung oil;
coat one, wait 10 minutes and rub down to get off excess.
coat 2 12 hours later, quick pass over with with some steel wool then same application procedure as above.
coat 3 24 hours later, same procedure as above.
coat 4 24 hours later, same procedure as above.
done!
gun now looks better then it did when i got it 31 years ago and probably looks on par with how it did when it was made 50 years ago.
very happy with the end result and so are the kids.
I learned to shoot on this gun and i took it everywhere i went and had many great adventures with it while growing up on a central Alberta farm.
last summer i taught my 2 daughters how to shoot with this gun and i felt some pangs of regret while teaching them because the gun was so beat up. so last week i decided i would get one last winter project in before the law mower comes out and rob's me of my down time.
so, the Refurbish of the Cooey Model 39.
i went and picked up some spirit wood stripper and some tung oil, some steel wool and some sand paper and had myself some fun!
here are the pics of the project.
you'll note how the stock is completely butchered, covered in a million scratches.
we can thank living on a dirt bike and bungie cording the gun to the metal rack of the old Honda Trike for all those scratches.
here is a closer look at the stock
after being stripped and a uber light sanding
right in the middle of the first coat of Tung Oil
coat number 3 (while at work)
and the finished product!
and the happy recipient of all dads hard work
i followed the directions on the stripper can and tung oil.
brushed on the stripper (which was a all natural spirits one)
used a brush to take it all off once it bubbled up.
after it was all cleaned up i gave it a quick pass with some 80, 120 and 220 grit sand paper just to take off the deep scratches.
took all of about 1 minute for all 3 papers. i literally just gave about 2 strokes per grit per side as i didnt want to kill any of the lines of the stock.
application of the tung oil;
coat one, wait 10 minutes and rub down to get off excess.
coat 2 12 hours later, quick pass over with with some steel wool then same application procedure as above.
coat 3 24 hours later, same procedure as above.
coat 4 24 hours later, same procedure as above.
done!
gun now looks better then it did when i got it 31 years ago and probably looks on par with how it did when it was made 50 years ago.
very happy with the end result and so are the kids.
......kwick pense to the past?
