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Traded for a CIL 830 today with a beat up stock. Looks like this:
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Gonna refinish the stock because it's scratched up, but I was wondering what I could do to bring out what little grain is there in the wood? I'd like to improve the look a bit, while I am at it.
I haven't refinished a stock since I was about 8, so I am a little rusty.
I recently had some luck with bringing out muted wood grain by using an oil finish mixed with some stain.
I generally don't like using pigmented stains (if it says to stir or shake well before use it's a pigmented stain). I find that it makes the wood look muddy and hides more than it brings out unless used with care. But mixing the stain with the boiled linseed oil seemed to tint the wood without the muddy look becoming too strong. As a result the poor grain that the wood had came out to a reasonable degree.
The stock you have looks like it's varnished. So removing that and using an oil stain will tend to improve the wood's contrast and grain right off the bat compared to the varnish. On top of that some colour from mixing in some stain might just make it pop a bit more.
I'd suggest you clean and sand the barrel channel to the same finish as the exterior of the stock and use the barrel channel as your test area. Do the work in small spots so you have enough room for additional tests and stain colours. Stick to spots about the size of a loonie.
I found that the oil and stain mix produced most of the effect from the first coat but the next two did bring up the colour a little more. So don't go by the first dab. Treat each loonie sized spot like a full on finishing job and take your time. If you can set the test spots out in the hard sun and heat you can do a coat a day. Otherwise it's a two or three day wait between coats to let the oil and stain fully dry/cure.
It should also be said since it's been a while that this isn't paint. You apply it, let it soak in for a minute or two then buff off the excess firmly with a clean paper towel.
Also boiled linseed oil heats up as it cures. Out in the open it's not an issue. But don't dispose of the oily rags or paper towels in a closed container or a fire can very much be the result. I know because a "helpful" friend cleaned up some oily paper towels and tied off the plastic bag. The bag burst into flames later on that evening. Lucky for all of us it was outside when this happened and we smelled it burning. Now I make it a point to lay the oily rags and towels out to dry for a couple of days. When I can tell that the oil is hard and the smell has changed THEN I throw them out in the regular trash.
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