A few months ago my grandfather gave me an old Mauser action 8mm rifle. He had gotten it fairly cheap many years back. I don't have any way of determining the origin of it since most of the markings are worn away completely. It appears that it was converted to a sporting rifle at one point. It had a lot of wear. Most of the bluing was worn off of the receiver, and the stock was rough and most of the finish was worn away. Unfortunately I was so excited to get to work on the rifle that I failed to take pictures with my good camera and only have a few off of my phone that I took.
This is the stock after a few good wipe downs with mineral spirits. The mineral spirits took off the remainder of the finish and also lifted the old oil out of the wood as well.
After a long sanding process I decided that I wanted to do a traditional oil hardened finish on the stock. So I picked up some Linspeed.
After several coats utilizing the Linspeed "dual application" process you can see for yourself that the results are pretty impressive.
I had some time between coats of oil so I took the liberty to re-blue the receiver. For it being such an old rifle I was able to blend the bluing so you couldn't even tell that it was redone.
After all was said and done I think that the rifle came out looking pretty good. My grandfather actually tried taking it back after he saw how nice it came out.
More updates on the way!
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