Gentle cleaning of No. 4 Mk 1* Savage Stock?

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Hi All,

Just acquired a Savage stock for my gun. It's in fairly decent shape, but I'd like to clean it a bit. NOT remove the finish ala oven cleaner etc. Just clean a bit of the grime off the finish.

Was thinking about using Murphy's Oil Soap and some hot water with a nylon nail brush.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

JGAM
 
I dont think oven cleaner will remove the finish, dont quote me thats just the impression I got from Riflechair's page.

I got a Carcano a couple of weeks ago that was a little oily, so I just ran the hot tap in my laundry tub until it was as hot as she'd get, then put some dishsoap in a bucket and swabbed the wood down with a soaking wet, steaming hot soapy cloth.

Seemed to seep a bit of the oil out and clean off a lot of the surface grime. Air dried it over night and she was nice and clean(er) by morning.
 
Oven cleaner will burn the wood. It's caustic. Use any wood cleaning product. Murphy's soap should do nicely. Go easy with the water though.
 
+2 with the Murphy's soap, and yes be VERY careful with the amount of water you use. Water and wood BAD, Water and old wood VERY BAD! :cool:
 
I cleaned up the greasy dirty stock on one of my mosins with a bucket of hot soapy water, a plastic scrubbie and a sponge. Worked very nicely...

I would (and did) test it on a small area first to make sure the wood wasn't going to disintegrate!
 
I use lemon Oil to wipe down and clean stocks. It takes off grease and will soak into the wood. I use it on metal parts too.
 
I'll have to dig up some old Family Antique wood recipies we have...I used some on one of my Enfields, and on a hot day there is a faint smell of Lemon, and Bees-wax...quite nice. :D
 
No water.

Use regular (non-"boiled") tung oil, available from Lee valley. It will help remove the surface grime, but it won't cure. Wipe off all the oil residue after cleaning. That's as much as I do on my collectable stocks.

Oven cleaner is a last resort, and only when the stock is not collectable. I've used it a couple of times to strip brand new stocks that were improperly finished, and where the regular non-water-based strippers didn't do the job. Apart from the fact that the sodium hydroxide in oven cleaner is harmful to the wood, you need to SOAK the stock afterwards to get the residue out of the stock, and this raises the grain. Then you have to sand, etc.
 
Generally orange oil & murphy's oil soap for me. I'm going to try Plinker's Unboiled Tung Oil suggestion.

DON'T use oven cleaner. I tried it on some (extremely poor condition) wood as an experiment. I was disappointed (but not overly surprised) by the results...

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