Cooey/Winchester 64A wood ?

[Skaal-tel]

Hey Kamlooky, thanks - so here's the process I used.

first, stripped the stock with circa1850 furniture stripper. Endothermic reaction makes it cold to the touch while it's working, nice safety feature. Doesn't produce harmful gases either. Bonus.
Then, steamed out some dents and sanded sanded sanded..
Cleaned
Prep for stain with:

You can use any stain prep you like, I couldn't find minwax so I used varathane. Works the same. Seals up the pores a bit .. I think.
Then stained with minwax #231 "Gunstock"

wiped off with a cotton rag, stained again, then buffed it with "coarse" scotchbrite pad to suit..
follow up with tru-oil. Lots of tru oil. Buff the tru oil with scotchbrite to remove bubbles, runs, high spots etc
re apply tru oil
repeat last two steps until you can count your teeth in the reflection
Apply mother's car polish and buff.. follow with glaze or wax depending on how it turns out
If I feel the need to re-oil, I'll just clean the stock with dish soap and get oiling

Buddy of mine just got a 64 that shoots well so I'm hoping I can strong-arm him into doing it with me. More resto pics make everyone happy!

 

[Dagmaar]

Man , there's no end to the looks one can get on these stocks . Lifetime goal - one of each color !
Great , fairly inexpensive hobby for me .

 

[1963beretta]

Here is the 64 stock with Red Mahogany stain. These pictures were taken after the first coat of Tru-Oil dried. Now that I've added a couple more coats of Tru-oil, with some wet sanding in between coats, the finish is really starting to look like glass. You can see in the pictures that there was a bit of an orange peel finish after the first coat of Tru-oil. I figure I'd do one more coat and a final sanding with a scotchbrite pad, and it will be ready for a final wax and polish.





**EDIT**

Last wet sand, wax and polish complete. Final assembled rifle with added sling swivles