shellac svt 40 finish help

rally guy

rally guy

CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Rating - 100%
35   0   0
I bought a svt 40 with bayonet from corwin arms a good 6 months plus ago. I hung it on a well with some other milsurp, it's ben there ever sence. I pick it up to fundle it today and to my dismay, it seems like all the finish on it started to dry up, like a drying mud riverbed.

Is there anything I could do to save it? I want to keep it original.
 
The white on the stock is the reflection of the fluorescent lights.

20160425_224643.jpg

20160425_224632.jpg

20160425_224725.jpg
 
For them is best just to take some steel wools remove al the orange shellack and reapply some stock oil. That shellack must have been applied not too long ago and is water based that is why it is not durable. When we first got the bayonets I just had them all striped and removed all of that shellack and left the wood bare
 
So the finish were remouve on the bayonet cause the finish was partially wore of? I got a welded spot like if the bayonet was snap of the handle and welded back on, is this possible?

For my svt 40 well refinishing is my last option I really want to keep it original.

My only regret do is not ordering 2.
 
It means you have one of the coal pile bayonets, as far as the Finnish on them I have no idea what was on them. Each one we had to soak in diesel fuel for 2 weeks just to clean it up. When we got them I was told by the disposal agency they were the bayonets that got discarded years ago because they did not meet standards for rebuilding they were "Rough Condition"
 
rally guy said:
I bought a svt 40 with bayonet from corwin arms a good 6 months plus ago. I hung it on a well with some other milsurp, it's ben there ever sence. I pick it up to fundle it today and to my dismay, it seems like all the finish on it started to dry up, like a drying mud riverbed.

Is there anything I could do to save it? I want to keep it original.
Click to expand...

Anything you do to it will devalue the rifle. There is basically no alteration you can make to a milsurp that will do anything other than devalue it and make it harder to sell.

If you want you can strip the shellac using alcohol and then reapply shellac with a brush or cloth. woodessence.com carries shellac in Canada.
 
If you meant rifles. Officially no but there is hope. However if the show up it will be less then 50. At the moment Lever Arms still have few left at reasonable price
 
To prevent your shellacked stock from peeling all you need to do is find a old rug
Then soak it in motor oil. After that start wiping the stock. With few repeat cessions it will be looking good as before.
Dry the stock with dry rug and repeat as much as possible.
Your home has dry air. So shellack is cracking. May be get humidifier to help with that
 
gewehr76 said:
To prevent your shellacked stock from peeling all you need to do is find a old rug
Then soak it in motor oil. After that start wiping the stock. With few repeat cessions it will be looking good as before.
Dry the stock with dry rug and repeat as much as possible.
Your home has dry air. So shellack is cracking. May be get humidifier to help with that
Click to expand...

Won't the wiping it tear of the flaking finish?
 
Just take some methyl hydrate(denatured alcohol) and wipe the stock down. It will soften the shellac and allow you to blend over the crazed spots.
 
gewehr76 said:
To prevent your shellacked stock from peeling all you need to do is find a old rug
Then soak it in motor oil. After that start wiping the stock. With few repeat cessions it will be looking good as before.
Dry the stock with dry rug and repeat as much as possible.
Your home has dry air. So shellack is cracking. May be get humidifier to help with that
Click to expand...

Whatever you do, do not do this.
 
mr.e moose said:
Just take some methyl hydrate(denatured alcohol) and wipe the stock down. It will soften the shellac and allow you to blend over the crazed spots.
Click to expand...

Do this.

You can also get shellac flakes at some hardware stores which need to be diluted with denatured alcohol to repair especially worn finishes. Shellac comes in various colours.
 
bp2626 said:
Anything you do to it will devalue the rifle. There is basically no alteration you can make to a milsurp that will do anything other than devalue it and make it harder to sell.
Click to expand...

I don't think so... a run of the mill SVT-40 won't lose any resale value if it's re-shellacked, in my opinion. If left in that condition, it does. Maybe if it was a numbers matching Podolsk or something, then I agree.

That's a strange thing to happen... must be no relative humidity in the OP's house or something.
 
Lee Valley's amber shellac and "Shellac/Lacquer Thinner" works well. You just have to test different shellac "cuts" to match the colour on the stock.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom