This question is for all the gunsmith on this forum .its been a good while sense I posted here,but I have started to get back into gun smithing again.i have two projects I am working on and both are stock refinishing jobs. I have striped both of them of there spray on finishes and are going to put on a nice oil finish .my question is when I do my filling how can I tell that the grain on the stocks are full. I fill them with finish and rotten stone and then wet sand them with finish . I don't wipe off all the sanding to let it dry on the stock.then I wet sand again with water and sand all the way to a 600 grit.it looks to be fully filled at this point ,but when I went and applied my first oil coat I found that some of the grain still needed to be filled more.I would like to be able to tell before I get to far alone so I don't have to repeat my steps.
