Varnish removel from stocks

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I've just stripped a stock this week using this stuff "Rustins Strypit" It did the job ok but certainly not as strong as any of the old strippers.

Nothing very exotic - just an old BSA Meteor (1962) that someone wanted restored for sentimental reasons. I usually finish them with Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil.


And an old Walther LGR:

[drone]

Obviously this post is ancient but the best advice is to do your research before you embarking on the project.
Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NLQEmwAvo4
I did , a suitable scraper can be bought from amazon - 150mm Cabinet Scraper to Replace Bahco BAH474 Cabinet Scraper and Irwin Marples M2450 Cabinet Wood Scrapers Made by Xcalibur Tooling

Pronese 11CM Wax Filler Sticks With Scraper For Wood Repair Kit, Furniture Repair Kit, Wood Filler Sticks, Wood Scratch Repair, Laminate Floor Repair Kit (4 Pcs)
Fiddes Satin Finish Hard Wax Oil 5 ml, Walnut.
You'll get all three for less than the cost of a litre of nitromors.
After scraping off the old varnish, use 0000 washed/degreased steel wool.
Once the stock is stripped,it takes about 2 hours to do, steamout any dents and scrape out and fill with wax any crushes.You can melt the various waxes together to get a colour match.
One of the sachets of finish is adequate for stock and fore-end of a win 94. They can be bought in an assortment of shades to suit your needs.
If the stock is oil soaked here is my method for removal, use it at your own risk. You'll need an aerosol can of brake cleaner, spray over the oil soaked wood and prop the part up so the oil/brake cleaner has the minimum distance to allow gravity to take it away, be warned this is a long process, the stock on my 1918 Savage 1899 took over two weeks but I got it out.
Please note, if the staining is at both ends of the wood, treat each end separately.
The process can be accelerated by using a hair dryer - not a hot air paint stripper - and mop the residue with kitchen roll, bog roll etc. When finished give it a going over with the 0000 steel wool.
That's what I did on 5 of my guns and they look good, I used nitromors on the stock of my stevens 77 pump gun in the 1960s and it still looks like s*** 60 years down the line.

[Pete]

I use Sainsburys Walnut oil for my stocks.....it soaks in quickly and polymerises in 7-10 days to a nice satin finish.
And it's quite a bit cheaper than some of the advertised snake oils.

Pete