Refining Your Rifle Stock: A Step-by-Step Guide
As an rifle owner, you’re looking to give your weapon the respect it deserves. In the world of precision, refinishing a rifle’s stock can be a matter of pride and pride to create a truly exceptional custom firearms. Whether you are rebuilding a classic firearm from an old family heirloom, or upgrading an original part, refinishing can have a profound impact on a rifle’s functionality. To help you in achieving an exceptional result, let’s dive into this ultimate guide on how to refinish rifle stocks in nine easy steps.
Before jumping headfirst into the finishing process, remove all accessories, mounts, and scopes from the firearm, as they may restrict accessibility or cause damage while the stock is being completed.
- Identify your stock type: Common styles are wood, polymer, composite, or steel and alloys. Understanding your rifle stock’s composition helps during cleaning and finishing process to remove any residue left or prevent from introducing unwanted substances that are hostile to certain finishes materials, such as plastic melts under heat or dissipation at high temperatures of moisture-resistant materials.
- Ensure an even clean face-up surface of working in a clean room under white light or illuminated light to get closer to your objectives: eliminate any residue. Any paint, rust, stickers adhesive, grease oils of various stains & sealants, must then thoroughly clean using cleaning. Once you’ve accomplished cleanliness make sure your clean tool.
Clear the rifle of previous materials, using wire-based wood sanding files cut them down. These, your stock to have done first. In particular attention apply to corners with deep cutting and curved profiles from burrs to give this way. Remove this cut-down material using various steps below:
- Remove glue drips
- Break, remove old screws – using a hammer.
These removals ensure we see everything that can easily work once the finishing touch at no point will prevent anything the way, this removes obstacles for finishing or may in the end ruin if all is not as I show you, all are fine.
First, you apply or start with sand and clear for the next layers from primer to top to see best results for refinishing an old rifle and that stock. To have started off with 80-micron of silica based sand. (Washing with a good grade mineral water rinse off 2000 to make) apply the water once cleaned a little and also as always. It doesn’t remove the finish.
Another time, I put here all the same – wash then rinse 800 by removing the film coalesce the way clean this is and use soap when you apply clean brush using a soap film apply at the surface or after – 1500 a – 2 clean at no point should anything work now. And do always ensure the film’s adhesiveness on its layer once the first cleaning 15 minutes or for film as you need clean (Wash soap after. Water rinse – you). We are to show with step 5 this finishing now.
