Refinishing K98 Stock - Tips?

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Hello again everyone,

Just thought I'd ask what peoples thoughts are on this subject. I recently purchased a K98 bcd 42 a couple weeks ago. The stock (as other forum members pointed out) was a genuine german K98 stock that was refurbed by the norwegians. The stock has some sort of poly laquer or coating on it and its starting to wear off. Here is a link to the pictures so you can see for your self.

http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g68/Tobin89/K98%20BCD%2042/?start=all

I want to bring the stock back to as close to its original factory look as possible with little to no sanding. I have heard the best thing to do use use commercial stripper then let the stock dry out and then brush on boiled linseed oil or tung oil as this is what was most commonly used in the factories during the war.

Can anyone provide some insight or tips on this? Perhaps someone here has done it and has a certain step by step method.

Thank you in advance!
 
Don't bother. Lol. Sorry to sound harsh but you'll still strip the german finish off underneath. The norweigian stocks look the part pretty good. I'd just leave it. About all you can do is de-value it.
 
Ok cool AR that sounds good with me. I was somewhat nervous about screwing with it anyways.

Guess ill just use the bottle of tung oil i bought on my old crappy cooey .22 stock. Make it all nics and purrty.
 
CanadianAR said:
Don't bother. Lol. Sorry to sound harsh but you'll still strip the german finish off underneath. The norweigian stocks look the part pretty good. I'd just leave it. About all you can do is de-value it.
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Especially when a nice Norwegian is worth more than most Russian captures or German mix-masters.

Gun show value on these has gone silly in the last year and EE values have gone up a comfy 30-50% depending.

They weren't imported in huge numbers in the first place and the remainder were destroyed as part of NATO compliance so you're not going to see any new ones.

Nice rifle. Hard to tell from the pics - it looks counter bored?

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