Tru-oil with a rag or your finger? Heck no! YOU GOT TO SPRAY GUN IT ON.

I have used Tru-oil for maybe 30 years or more, spraying has its advantages but I have put it on by hand on many a custom rifle and matched any pictured. Lately I have been using a poly urathane designed for hardwood floors. I dont know how this compares with the auto finishes but the stuff is so hard using 0000 steel wool you must really bear down on it to break the gloss. One added note, the Tru-oil of today does not comapre to the old stuff that contained lead. The old stuff went on easier, runs were almost nonexistant and I believe lasted a lot longer
 
Rflshootr said:
What application method are you using with the floor poly? Are you thinning?
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I have not expeimented enough to give an authoritive answer as to what is best. The high gloss goes on easier with less runs than the satan. Spraying seems to work best but have done well with a brush. The high gloss needs some thinning but the satan seems to be ok as is but have only done one stock with the satan, hardly conclusive. Based on my experience using an airless thin only if nothing else works right. I live in a fairly dry climate which may make a difference
 
just found this thread .......

...after posting in "rod extension" thread.
You state that this stock had a 3" square fore-end and you rounded it off.
This will now make the rifle tend to rock in the front bag.
Any reason you prefer the rounded forend?
 
Agreed. Urethane or another hard type of poly finish would be my preferred choice in the future. However, I do not enjoy this side of the hobby and I may never attempt to finish a stock again. As mentioned, I have experience with doping and spray-painting 7' wingspan R/C airplanes. 9 months to 1 1/2 years to build a toy was just fine. But the 1 month it took me to paint it was what I enjoyed least.



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LHSMITH,

I rounded the sharp triangular wedge on the front of the rosewood tip that hangs over the front bag and touches the bumper post of the rifle rest....the non-critical surface.
 
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Thanks Butch.


DSM,
Geees....even with Urethane you can still go that many coats for a nice finish ay?

That's a nice fiddleback piece of wood on that Rem pistol, and well worth the time that you spent applying the clear finish.

That rifle looks serious too. What is it, and how's it shoot?
 
VaniB said:
Thanks Butch.


DSM,
Geees....even with Urethane you can still go that many coats for a nice finish ay?

That's a nice fiddleback piece of wood on that Rem pistol, and well worth the time that you spent applying the clear finish.

That rifle looks serious too. What is it, and how's it shoot?
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You almost need to go that many coats on wood. The grain likes to suck it in.

The rifle is a 6mm Dasher built on a Panda action, Bartlein tube and a Shehane stock. It definitely shoots, 1's are typical at short range with 105 vld's. I've had a few agg's in the 0's with it. It's built for long range but it wears a short range stock. The huge F Class stocks aren't for me...I prefer a light gun.
 
truoil

ive done about 4 stocks now using truoil i get the fornbys from walmart i use high gloss as ill explain.

first thing is that stock has to be clean clean i use my compressor to blow it out.

then the fun begins i use small squares of cotton i put the first 3 or 4 coats on liberly becausse i sand it all down to the wood anyway. i put this one full strenght.

the next coats i split 60-40 true oil mineral spirtis. these new coats dry very fast within several hours depending on humidity. each coat i use steelwool to know it down.

after about 5 coats its done. the final coat i lightly know it down thats why i use the high gloss because then its not so loud.

the thing with truoil is not to give up on it. if you have a failure knock it down and do it over.

great product and it works for me and i am no expert

bob
 
I know that this is an old thread, and may not be read anymore, but I just came upon it and wanted to compliment VanB on his stock. I think it is absolutely beautiful, and whether or not it's the way I like my stocks finished, I can certainly recognize and appreciate fine work when I see it. You are an artist, VanB, and I love your work!
 
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