original color/look of a Red Glue laminate k98 stock

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Someone has screwed with the stock of my k98 before i bought it, Someone told me it's been sanded and covered with miniwax or something, also theres is a large scratch that has turned black on the side of it, so basically id like to resand it to get ride of the scratch and stain it the original color and cover it with original; is it linseed oil?

Want to make it look original again

here is what it looks like now

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Here is the scratch on the left side of the butt

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DONT SAND IT.
Will only devalue it. I believe the original finish is boiled linseed oil.
But sanding is not advised.

Also it isnt too far off finish colour.
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It looks pretty good to me, I would just leave it as the colour and appearance are quite close to what the stock would have looked like back in the 1940s.
 
The stock may not be German anyway (no stock disc, drilled buttplate for bolt takedown instead) If it is, it would be very late war with no bayo lug.

What are the markings on the rifles receiver? Are there any on the stock (under buttplate or barrel channel)? It is most likely a Czech refurb.

The stock looks good, sanding it will not be a good idea and will wear down its nice crisp edges. It looks to be in fine shape, she is a nice blonde.

You could strip the minwax off with chemicals but they might attack the glue in the laminate. I would leave it alone, the scratch is part of its history.
 
Could be a late war stock, the type that omitted the take down disc in favour of the take down hole on the left/right side of the butt plate ?
 
As mentioned don't mess with it, looks good as is.

The word really varied from rifle to rifle, factory to factory etc.

Many rifles were never oiled or stained; but many others were treated at the factory or in the field.

Everything from linseed oil, sunflower oil, dirt, motor oil, etc was used on original stocks.

If you do insist on treating it, use something natural like linseed oil or natural tung oil.

The stock is either a late war stock (Kriegsmodell) or post war Czech. Many of the post war Czech stocks were actually war made stock placed on Czech assembled rifles (made up of German parts and later Czech made parts). You need to remember, many of the same workers worked in the factory after the war and the machinery was the same.
 
The first thing you're gunna wanna do is cut the forend off. No need for all that weight up front. Next may I suggest some decorative checkering? How about a carving of a duck?
 
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