cheap chu wood refinishing?

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Do anyone know a nice method to bring the black/brown original M-305 wood stock to bare wood ready to be refinish?

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Oven Cleaner... spray on, let soak, wipe off.

Also, you might wanna put the stock in a black plastic garbage bag and set it in the sun for a while... all the crappy oil/cosmo will seep out. Well, not ALL, but most.

There are other ways too.. do a search on 'mystery wood' in this forum.
 
One thing you will notice once you are down to the bare wood is that the chu wood is very porous. For a real nice finish, save some of the bare wood sanding dust and mix with a little oil. Rub it on across the grain, let dry and sand lightly. It may take 2 or 3 times doing this but you will be on your way to a pretty nice looking stock.
 
I just used Dawn dishsaop and really hot water. That Dawn is amazing (ge that sounds ###), it really pulled all the oil out of the stock.

The wood actually looked pretty good stripped. I applied multiple rubs of BLO,and followed with a light wax protector.
 
Is the M305 stock shellaced like the norc SKS's? I got the Chu on my SKS looking really really nice by stripping the old shellac with poly-strippa, sanding the bare wood then tung oiling the crap out of it. Came out very nicely...
 
You can obtain the same effect by using super fine steel wool and oil at the same time.

SW

Turf said:
One thing you will notice once you are down to the bare wood is that the chu wood is very porous. For a real nice finish, save some of the bare wood sanding dust and mix with a little oil. Rub it on across the grain, let dry and sand lightly. It may take 2 or 3 times doing this but you will be on your way to a pretty nice looking stock.
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Can you apply resin after you've cleaned the wood? If the wood is porous, then I think applying some type of resin (or some type of filling mix for wood), let it set, then sanding it makes the wood more durable. Or would it cause more problem?
 
Steppenwolf said:
You can obtain the same effect by using super fine steel wool and oil at the same time.

SW
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Yep, I do the same thing too on really nice and tight walnut or birch. Sometimes I use the turquoise ceramic dust you use to be able to get from Brownells about 25 years ago.(Still have 1/2 full pill bottle). Problem is with open grain wood like the chu, unless the stock is dewhiskered and filled properly, the very fine threads of the steel wool or the dust gets into the pores and it is ##### to clean it up and start the next coat.
 
I would be a bit leery of the dishwasher method—I'd be concerned that some of the crap from the stock could be deposited on the dishwasher's plastic and could be re-deposited on your dishes in subsequent washings. Before I had heard of the Oven Cleaner or Dove method I worked on mine with just sandpaper and finished with Tung Oil.

Here's the before:
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and the after (maybe two hours or work?):

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why would you pull it out before the dry cycle? wouldnt that help pull out dents ect? ......heck if i care....im just going to throw it in the dishwasher as an experiment, that stock is a peice of garbage as far as im concerned, the only time i might use it is if i were to go hunting (i dont want to wreak my nice synthetic m1a crinkle stock)
 
sixty9santa said:
I wonder how much these banana wood stocks could re-sell for?


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Unfinished about $10.00 w/o the metal. Refinished with the metal maybe $50-60 depending on how good the job.
 
alright guys...i just took the plunge....just put my crappy norc stock in the dishwasher in the power scrub cycle. i will let you guys know how it turns out in the morning, it went in super ugly, full of dents and scratches, and with the typical bad finish.


shoot, i hope this dosnt destroy the $10 resale value!!!
 
bob after it's all done, I'd run the washer 2 or 3 times empty to make sure sure none of the oily crap gets into and onto your next dishwasher load. There was always hell to pay whenever I did it. That and baking gun parts in the oven.
 
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