M24 Tranformation..Before and after.. Pic Heavy!

[tbaybmkr]

Years ago my Dad stained his M24 Finnish Mosin in a dark stain, I guess he wanted to cover up all the scratches and dings in the stock.
Well I stripped the stain and rubbed boiled linseed oil into the stock and man it is the blondest Mosin I have seen yet!
Check out the before and after pics!
BEFORE

AFTER!

One of my fave guns now!

 

[Power Pill]

I think it looks nicer with the stain on it

 

[Claven2]

Too bad you have no pine tar, that's the proper finish for an M24.

 

[tbaybmkr]

LOL! Nicer but not authentic...

 

[PerversPépère]

You can find a good pine tar finish in some ski shops that still have products for wooden cross-country skis.
SWIX makes one product #A900 3295 Impregnation for Wood Skis and it is a liquid pine tar finish that applies really well on wood. It looks and smells exactly like some Finn stocks.
It is not the shiny showroom kind of finish, being kind of flat-looking but it takes and holds beeswax which was used with turpentine on some stocks.
PP.

 

[Nabs]

Agreed, put some pine tar finish on the wood and it will look 10x better. Glad you removed that stain, it didn't look nice at all.

 

[kjohn]

Great old rifle!

(Use something other than a white background. Your rifle will show up much, much better. )

 

[tbaybmkr]

Agreed, put some pine tar finish on the wood and it will look 10x better. Glad you removed that stain, it didn't look nice at all.

Will that stuff change the colour?? I want it to stay blonde... Blondes have more fun!

 

[fugawi]

Looks good to me. If you post on Gunboards in the Mosin Collectors forum, somebody there has a recipe for a Finnish tar mix. I'm pretty sure I've seen it posted a few times.

 

[tbaybmkr]

Looks good to me. If you post on Gunboards in the Mosin Collectors forum, somebody there has a recipe for a Finnish tar mix. I'm pretty sure I've seen it posted a few times.

Thanks I'll check it out!

 

[tplumtree]

Get a quart of real pine tar off of eBay. The brand is called Ausson and it comes in a black can with red trim. A company in California imports it from Sweden. There is no "recipe" for it, but you can dilute it with turpentine as it is like molasses to get better penetration. It makes the wood grain pop like you would not believe. After several coats (it takes forever to dry) your wood will look like it's on fire. The smell is intense though. They call it liquid smoke for a reason.

 

[tbaybmkr]

I was talking with my father in law (Finnish) and he looked at me wierd when I mentioned pine tar. He said that that stuff is meant for skis not gun stocks...
If it stinks like that I'll stick to the linseed oil... ;-)