A "Tiger" of an SVT-40
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maple_leaf_eh
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Where's the problem? I haven't seen many Soviet sheet steel magazines that weren't pitted. As for the bolt carrier, that is what modern bluing does to stainless steel. Almost all the recent imports have that plum colour. Old batches are plain shiney steel.
I think they're talking about the gain in the wood.
Often the "tiger striping" seen on Soviet weapons is from the post refurb storage. From my understanding the rifles were wrapped in a paper after being covered in cosmoline. The string around the paper left marks of sorts on the wood. Not physical dings or scratches, just a colour difference from where the cosmoline and string affected the stock. Very nice either way!
for me, I don't care how it got there, it looks gorgeous and in truth I would pay a premium for wood like that over plainer wood. thanks for the info artyman that is the kind of stuff i love to hear about. Do you think that process could be replicated using a chemical process? or does it take 30 years of storage?
ghostntheshell
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I love the tiger look
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- London, Ontario
Nice...I like the look, too bad the handguard isn't the same
Sounds like a viable theory, but that would mean lots of little strings to leave that many stripes. The stripes are also clearly under the shellac, so it would have been done before the rifle was refurbed - perhaps something dripping on it. I know lots of weapons were left outsde exposed to the elements for months. What amazes me is I can't really tell by looking at it whether this is a natural phenom of the wood grain. I have, however, seen similar stripes on Finn 1891s which have stocks made of arctic birch.
I don't know how much stock (heh) I'd put in the storage idea. If that was the cause, wouldn't such striping be a lot more common on all the ex-soviet milsurps? I don't recall seeing any SKS stocks with striping like that, for instance.
How was the wood on these old soviet rifles treated aside from shellac?
If it were a storage marking, it would be in the category of freak occurances for sure. Definitely not a phenomenon resulting from practices performed on large amounts of rifles. I wonder if this disqualifies the string wrapping theory since its not something you see often.
Skirsons asking if a process that results in a look that everyone here says that they like can be replicated is not trolling. you don't like me and I don't like you we have established that in previous posts. I do quite a bit of woodwork and I want that look for a quaker table. Ill say this again I don't post here to annoy you because I DON'T CARE WHAT OR IF YOU THINK.
