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Re: Refinishing Beech
keith #536363 02/05/19 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted By: keith
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Do you include Red oil in your indictment?


Certainly. And most definitely with a wood like beech that is notorious for uneven stain absorption. I find it much more controllable to use either a home-brewed alcohol based alkanet stain or Behlen's SolarLuxe prior to applying my final finish. But if your unconventional furniture and cabinet finishing techniques give you the look you want on a gunstock, go for it.



Oh, I'm not recommending Japanese Shou Sugi Ban to gussy up this beech stock either, although that technique made some nice tool handles when I finished them. Too much potential for a bad result for a first try on a rifle.



Absolutely nothing unconventional with red oil or adding alkenet directly into a modified oil finish. Duane Weibe had a wonderful pictorial on his website for years on how to use this technique. I have used this method for many years myself and never once needed to sand off the finish. The beauty of this method is that when you cut back using rotten stone and the colored finish as a lube you do not get light colored areas. Nothing at all wrong with an alcohol based stain and the method you use but it is hardly the only acceptable method of obtaining a quality stock finish.


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Re: Refinishing Beech
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I wonder how the yellowing of approved finishes is interpreted within the manifesto ?

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If you don't mind me asking what does your reply have to so with refinishing beech ?

Here's my tip beech is going to look like crap no matter what you do

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Winchester, of course, was famous for using a secret recipe for red oil finishes on their rifles. But then, they were Winchesters after all.

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Steve, I am well aware of the technique of red oil sanded in finishes. Also aware that there is more than one way to get a good finish on a stock. But we are not dealing with walnut here. I feel the stain mixed with the finish on beech would be more difficult to control on a wood notorious for taking stain unevenly. More difficult to correct if it didn't turn out well too. But I already said that. And the unconventional methods I really questioned was that psychedelic furniture finishing tutorial that seemed intended to apply some unusual effect to make plain hardwoods "interesting".

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