Tung Oil Rifle Stock Finish. Have used fromby's tung oil for several stock restorations and never ran into a drying problem. Depending on humidity, this may take a week, maybe more. Finish can easily be dulled from gloss to matte by buffing with 0000 steel wool once the finish has fully cured.

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Let the tung oil dry completely. It sounds like minwax tung oil finish is the way to go since the end result is a rifle whose wood looks authentic, but actually has superior qualities (waterproof i just finished a cmp stock that was also dry. I have applied two coats of minwax special walnut 224 (an oil the minwax says tung oil finish may be used over wood stained with minwax wood finish stain or other minwax stains.

No oil based finish (linseed, tung, etc) will give really good moisture resistance.

You'll receive email and feed alerts when new items arrive. I am finishing a new unfinished walnut rifle stock. Applying tung oil after removing the existing finish is a traditional method of refinishing wooden rifle stocks that's still used today. They all share the benefits that tung oil imparts to a finish—durability, water resistance, resilient hardness, and color stability—depending on how much of the oil they actually contain and. Though it is recognized as the best, however, it is not the most popular due to its high cost (one litre is $40. It has been in use by the chinese for thousands of years, mainly in waterproofing and preserving wooden ships. For me, sealing the wood is the easiest and one of the most enjoyable parts of finishing a stock. Adding a polyurethane to an oil finish will upgrade their water resistance in proportion to the percentage of polyurethane in the vehicle.