The story of a used/new to me Lakefield..........

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Sometimes the EE to me is like attending an auction. I get meself all wound up.
Should I or shouldn't I buy xyz.......?
Hurry before it gits itself away.
With Christmas not to far away and pondering what in heaven's tarnation to get
everyone, I thought I'd start snooping for Thing 2. Thing 1 it's best to stuff the
envelope.
Oh, in case sum of yu'alls don't know me lingo, Things 1 & 2 I would be referring
to our two wonderful childrun the storkie dropped off years ago now.......years.....hmmmmm?

Anyways, this Lakefield Model 54B happened to show it's face on the EE.
Price wasn't horrible and it didn't look to horrible either.....that is until it showed up.
Holy Scratch'n Kitty post there Looky. Looks like whom ever decided to redo the stock took
it to a wire wheel bench grinder. I had a lookysee at the supplied photos and the quack facker
did a pretty good job with the light and hiding said blemishes. Not sure if it was intentional or not?

I took this trader rating to bed with me and decided to just ignore the whole issue. New project on
me hands, me pense.
With the Winchester 370 Youth .410 just a memory now, and the idea was given to me in the ago
replies here to use leather dye, this is what I had in mind for the poor Lakefield.

Couple photos of the before I start.

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Then tossed on some of that finish goop and said......"mamma mia".

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My initial approach was to just remove the finish and steam and sand out the mess.
The stamped checking took a beating too and this I don't do.
So the eye deer came between the ears to just remove the stamped chit. They make these stocks
fairly big, so room to remove. And this is what I started to do.

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I've mentioned in the past about using an air board and this works great keeping the stock flat rather than
having dips and dives in there. Then my orbital sander decided a vacation was in order. I was out of air board
sand paper, so a trip into town was in order. Here's a wee pile of kibble. Just under $60.00.

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More effort and slowly the ugly duckling came to life.

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Then to decide what color of dye or stain to choose from. Only had a two pack of twelve each to decide. Crap, 24 colours. Hot pink, no,
sky blue, nahhh, then the deep violet, maybe or the grape. Hmmmmmm grape. Made up a sample board of all the colours and company
came over. Project aborted for a bit.
Then back to the grind. Grabbed the grape and put on a coat. Crap, the wood eats this up like a sponge. Then I noticed the grape was
indeed the hot violet......chit. Let it dry and attack it with 0000 steel wool. Then the grape went on. I figured it would hide the pinkie tint.

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I wasn't so sure this was going to do it. But with the two homes I have built, best to leave the colour adjustments until the final product.
They have a way of mess'n wid the mento.

Sooooooo, three coats of dye, the first being wrong and about six coats of Tru Oil, well I lost count.
Here she is.
Oh, bear in mind Thing 2 wears girlie parts..........K?

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The wee 22 is actually quite attractive in three D.
Not sure what to say to the seller other than, yes I did receive the rifle in pronto time.
Hoping next time you will be a little more courteous with your photos.
With the cost of buying a new sander and the sanding sheets for my air board, this could of
purchased a new rifle.
Then again, it wouldn't look like this one.
Couple issues on the inners that twisted my nose a bit, but I managed to resolve them too.

Remember the old motto, "don't git mad, git even".

Stay sunny side mes amis.................... :cheers:
 
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I have to admit it looks very nice I have an old Winchester Cooey Model 39 .22 rifle. that I was looking to Pink up for my girls to learn on, you have given me inspiration, Thank you
 
Ever spend hours on a project, and it just doesn't work? It's the few that come up beautiful that give me the strength to persevere through the many that don't...Yours' gives me some of that strength, and I didn't even have to touch it!

I adore my 64's, and hope thingII does too. Came up very nice, and "pro" appearing. I could drive a purple Charger, but would re-paint a pink one. Eye catchy!
 
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