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So long story short I ended up with an extra set of 870 furniture, a laminate set and a hardwood set. Both are really nice, the laminate set is getting coats of BLO and will be on my new Express once it's all soaked in and dry. I didnt have a use for the hardwood set so I gave it to my wife for her 12.5" grizzly, the factory plastic set is so heavy and looks like garbage imho. Here's some pics of it, I'm quiet pleased with it now and so is my wife. It lightened up a lot, I weighed both stock sets without butpads and stock bolts and the factory plastic set weighed in at 2.24lbs and the new hardwood set weighed in at 1.83lbs.

I should've snapped a before pic but you know what the stock grizzly looks like I'm sure.
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My laminate set soaking up the BLO and the new 870 Express.
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*sigh* it's posts like this that're making me miss my old Grizzly. I did the same thing with some laminate 870 furniture, just stripped it, stained it and oiled it.

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I should really repeat the process because that shorty was a lot of fun!
 
Looks good^^^

Well a friend just gave me all his leather working tools recently, I already decided a leather cheek riser butt cuff would be in the works for my no.4 enfield. If that goes well I will def make a shell holder for the wife's Grizzly, she will be into that.
 
Can't claim I make my own leather. With decent quality leather available from Eastern Europe for so cheap, it's hard to justify the time to put into it.

Although sometimes I regret that... Doing it yourself always "feels" better than buying.
 
Won't be attempting to make one for awhile, leather work will be a new experiment for me. Have to learn some basics over the winter before I try anything complicated like a butt cuff, been interested in doing it for awhile and now I have the free time.
 
This grizzly looks very nice. I would love to do the same as I have an unused 870 laminate furniture set and an new 12.5" Grizzly that I would like to introduce to each other. What did you use to strip and stain? I like the dark look. Did you finish with Boiled linseed?



lerch641 said:
*sigh* it's posts like this that're making me miss

my old Grizzly. I did the same thing with some laminate 870 furniture, just stripped it, stained it and oiled it.

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I should really repeat the process because that shorty was a lot of fun!
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Butcherbill said:
Looks good^^^

Well a friend just gave me all his leather working tools recently, I already decided a leather cheek riser butt cuff would be in the works for my no.4 enfield. If that goes well I will def make a shell holder for the wife's Grizzly, she will be into that.
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Just a silly little point - if you tell people you're making a leather butt cuff, and they're not gunnies, maybe explain it rather than call it such.
 
jumpingjackflatch said:
This grizzly looks very nice. I would love to do the same as I have an unused 870 laminate furniture set and an new 12.5" Grizzly that I would like to introduce to each other. What did you use to strip and stain? I like the dark look. Did you finish with Boiled linseed?
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As I recall, sanded the old finish off and used a dark cherry stain, then a coat of RLO that I usually stock which diluted the stain a bit.
 
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