Has anyone lin seed oiled their sks?

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Been debating buying a second stock for the SKS, sanding it down and lin seed oiling it since my enfield and cooey turned out looking really good. The current stock is forced matched any way so I am not giving it the bubba job. Could probably just force match a new stock the same way actually.

Is anyone willing to share their lin seed oil SKS to I can decided if I want to do it to mine?
 
I don't remember it being too difficult. I start with paint stripper and the get out the sander, then by hand. The only stocks I've had problems with are the norinco shotguns (original backpacker and others) That brown paint looking color is damn near bulletproof.
 
The original coating is shellac. Use denatured alcohol and steel wool or plastic pot scrubber to dissolve the shellac. EZ Strip (can get at Home Depot) works awesome with no work, just slather it on, wait an hour or 2 and wipe the dissolved shellac off. I'm not sure how well boiled linseed oil will work on a laminate stock.

Gnome75 said:
That did turn out pretty good.

How hard was it to get the original coating off?
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It turns out fine. I've seen a M14S with linseed on a Chu wood stock, even nicer.
 

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Irons78 said:
The original coating is shellac. Use denatured alcohol and steel wool or plastic pot scrubber to dissolve the shellac. EZ Strip (can get at Home Depot) works awesome with no work, just slather it on, wait an hour or 2 and wipe the dissolved shellac off. I'm not sure how well boiled linseed oil will work on a laminate stock.
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The pic of mine above is BLO , it was done years ago now..... worked just fine.
 
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