what to do with M305 mystery wood stock?

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Ok, so over Christmas I bought the M305, and put on a USGI stock. I now have the original stock taking up space, and I'm not sure what to do with it. I will admit, the wood is unlike anything else I've seen.

So, what other uses are there for them? Could there actually be a market for them aside from firewood? :p
 
If you want and/or have an interest in wood working, you can refinish the stock.

You'll have to strip the stock of all mysterious grease(some advoate dishwater) and then refinish it.

Tung Oil makes to interesting finish
 
I've refinished my wood stock with pretty good result
use bake cleaner to remove old grease or whatever it is
I used Birchwood casey tru oil finish
you can knock down shine with steel wool as you wish
anyway here's the result, but the picture don't do it justice.

Before:

After:



The wood is now much harder and I bedded the action with acraglass with pretty good result.
still waiting to try it at the range

BTW I tried Tung oil on military style wood stock it give a nice finish but don't protect much, I would'nt recommend using a soft finish like that on a poor quality wood such as this chinese wood :p
Gab
 
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NOw I know why Christmass oranges now come in cardboard rather than wooden boxes. The Chinese use the wood to make M305 stocks!

Take Care

Bob
 
Use it to teach yourself how to do checkering. Or any of the plethora of other stock related projects. Or sell it. The stock that came off my old Cooey 71 went to a guy who mounted a camera on it. He filled it with epoxy.
 
The chu wood can be refinished to look pretty decent. I did the stock on my norinco sks.

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There's an old thread about it here:
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61994

Don't burn it!
dh
 
Keep it, tuck it in a corner . You may break or crack your GI stock and have to wait a long time to receive another. You should always have spares of everything.
 
Run it though the dishwasher. :dancingbanana:

After drying spray it with 6-7 light coats of truck bed liner. Let each coat dry for one day.

Once done let it harden for a week. It will be very tough!
 
godgab said:
BTW I tried Tung oil on military style wood stock it give a nice finish but don't protect much, I would'nt recommend using a soft finish like that on a poor quality wood such as this chinese wood :p
Gab
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Not bad at all on showing some grain of the Chu wood with TruOil. TruOil is really more of a surface finish though.

I'm surprised you found that the wood was soft after tung oil. Did you properly dry out the wood of anything in it after the stripping stage? Did you cure the wood before going about the finishing top coats of oil?

Chu wood will never be some super hard, awesome grain wood but it can be made to be decent to work.

One thing that does feel nice is the thicker contours on the M14 stock compared to the albeit hard fiberglass USGI and wood USGI stocks.
 
OC-3 said:
Run it though the dishwasher. :dancingbanana:

After drying spray it with 6-7 light coats of truck bed liner. Let each coat dry for one day.

Once done let it harden for a week. It will be very tough!
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This sounds like my kind of low-dolla solution. How rough is the Cambodian Tire truck bed liner stuff? After a day out at the range will the girlfriend think you've been out for a hand-softening manicure?
 
Do the dishwasher thing. It completely strips it and gets rid of all the cosmoline/oil/ stain, and everything else. Let it dry real good and finish with tung oil to bring out the grain. Or use the bedliner, it's ten bucks a can at CT, and wears better than paint.
 
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