Cleaning up wood furniture

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Got this Gew88 I'm taking apart, and the stock is just... gross..

Does anyone have tips, or products they would recommend to clean it up a bit?

Or, is cleaning it up a bad thing from a historical perspective...? :confused:
 
Is it old grease / crap ?
A bucket of varsol ( or even gasoline , which worked well for me several times ) and scotchbrite pads.
You can work off the old crap , abit at a time, leaving a patina and enhance any stampings . You may find additional stampings under heavily grease/crap coated stocks.
Old varnish or hardend grease will work out with finish remover for antique furniture such as "Circa 1850" , once again ,take it easy and work out the old , leaving the patina or a "antiquing effect"
 
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As Timer says - Cleaning old dirty wood: mineral spirits. Stripping it to refinish - yup, circa 1850.

Don't strip historically valuable stuff, not recomended.

My $0.02...
 
Get cosmolene out by hanging it inside a plastic tube with several light bulbs. The cosmolene will sweat out.

The remaining gunk and oil can be removed by filling the cavities with cotton tight and wrapping the stock in a layer of cotton, then wrapping a cotton thread around that, and soaking the whole thing in acetone. Leave the stock in airtight container overnight, and change cotton. Do it until there is no oil on the cotton. Don't rub with acetone - it will actually push oil and gunk deeper into wood.
 
I am just trying to see if the paper towels would work on a very old milsurp shotgun stock. Dirty as hell - no finish and looks like it's charred.
If paper towels will perform the same as cotton, it will be much easier. Cotton usually comes in the shape of little balls that are a PITA to unwrap.
 
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