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Just picked up a Savage 3111A that dates to 1952. Planning on re finishing the stock, someone already beat me to it and did a sh!t job. The the butt stock and forend have checkering on them and I am wondering if this would have been done by others or if this could have been done from new? From what I have read, some may have had a walnut checkered stock. This may have been a different model?
 
Thanks for the info guys. Here are a few pics of the checkering. Would you say this is typical of factory work or something added? It seems very uneven.

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I am wanting to do a nice rubbed oil matte finish on this stock. The checkering is so shallow in places I wonder if it would be possible to sand it out, may make things look strange where it is deeper. Any one ever try removing checkering? Not really concerned with harming the value of the gun.
 
OverUnder725 said:
I am wanting to do a nice rubbed oil matte finish on this stock. The checkering is so shallow in places I wonder if it would be possible to sand it out, may make things look strange where it is deeper. Any one ever try removing checkering? Not really concerned with harming the value of the gun.
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I sanded checkering off a Husky stock, it worked ok but the wrist part of the stock did get a little thin, but I am happy enough with it
 
I wouldn't sand it out. I guess I'm wondering why you would want to. Once you remove it you are left with a smooth grip. Checkering worn in spots still offers more grip than none at all. It will likely be thinner in the wrist area once removed. The stock checkering doesn't look that worn. For what is worn on the forearm, if you don't want someone to re-cut the checkering then get a small 3 sided file or the such and make the lines deeper where it is worn. You have nothing to loose if you aren't worried about value because you are altering it anyhow if you sand out the checkering.
Actually from what pics are provided, the stock finish looks pretty good. Is it worn off in other areas that the pics don't show?
 
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Maybe the thought was how to refinish the checkered areas and that was the reason the OP thought of sanding them off, I know on my Husky stock that was my thought process and it worked ok for me,however I did refinish a Savage 340 and dealt with the checkered areas with paint varnish remover and some brushes which worked fine and the end result was a finish that did not show the checkered areas being a different color than the rest which is what I wanted
 
Often, once you remove the finish from the checkering and clean it out with toothbrushes, you will find it's not worn quite as much as you thought. When refinishing, the checkering should only have a light coat or two of oil applied to protect the wood. Don't apply numerous coats to the checkering. It is not unusual for the checkering finish/color to look a bit different than the rest of the stock.
 
That was my motive, I want a nice rubbed oil finish and I thought the checkering would be difficult to deal with. Once I got looking at it and saw it was a crappy job at best and I didn't really appeal to me, I thought I would just remove it. I think I will try strip it with checkering intact and see how it looks. If I can get all of the old finish (and new varnish finish someone has put on) out of the checkering, I may keep it. Maybe a good project to buy some enter level checkering tools and give it a go.

Here is a picture of the worst part on the forend.

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I bought a Dembart single line checkering tool to use to sharpen up checkering. This was my first attempt from a few weeks ago. The checkering on my stock was far worse than yours (about 30% of it was worn completely flat - not even a trace of a line) I was pretty satisfied with how it turned out for my first try. Good luck and let us know how you make out.


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I bought a Dembart single line checkering tool to use to sharpen up checkering. This was my first attempt from a few weeks ago. The checkering on my stock was far worse than yours (about 30% of it was worn completely flat - not even a trace of a line) I was pretty satisfied with how it turned out for my first try. Good luck and let us know how you make out.


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Looking good Patrick.
 
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