Kentucky teardown project progress

[Flintlock Whiskey]

I know, sounds like Bluegrass tune.
Anyway, with the heat of AZ summer coming on, I'm going to overhaul my Pedersoli Kentucky flinter. Seen videos on removing the barrel and feel fairly confident about it. So, what I want to do is strip and refinish the stock. I'd like to strip the blueing from the barrel and brown it and perhaps have the frizzen professionally rehardened. My first question here is what is the best way to get rid of the blueing on the barrel? Second, recommendations of who is best to do the frizzen?

 

[TreeMan]

Vinegar will take the blueing right off. I use citri strip on wood stocks. Dip the barrel in a wallpaper pan of vinegar or just keep wiping and rubbing. It’ll come off. When finished be sure to clean all of the vinegar off inside and out and oil it up. It will cause it to rust.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Got it taken down. Have to love YT, there was a video on how to remove a pinned barrel, thank goodness. The rifle was made in 2020. How covid affected factory quality, I'm not sure But I wasn't happy about this being overlooked and not properly sanded (see pic). This is one of the reasons I'm doing an overhaul on it. Also going to cone the barrel and have it browned and have the frizzen reworked.

 

[Trot]

If you sand it, use a sanding block and be careful not to lose the lines of the lock panels and cheek piece. You don't want to round over the edges.

 

[barracudadave67]

Strip the stock with paint, and varnish remover first. If you sand it first you will probably make the stock to small. Thier isn't a lot of wood, to begin with.
Vinegar will work good on the metal parts.

Dave

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Strip the stock with paint, and varnish remover first. If you sand it first you will probably make the stock to small. Thier isn't a lot of wood, to begin with.
Vinegar will work good on the metal parts.

Dave

Good advice. I'm going to do this painstakingly slow. After stripping I hopefully wont have to sand anything. I hope the factory job is good enough.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Strip the stock with paint, and varnish remover first. If you sand it first you will probably make the stock to small. Thier isn't a lot of wood, to begin with.
Vinegar will work good on the metal parts.

Dave

Will wiping it down with vinegar work of do I have to soak it?

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

The citrus stripper did good. I was able to get most of it off. Can I use a garden hose and brush to get it out of the inlay and lock channels? Or??

 

[DrLaw]

If you are going to cone it, find Flintsteel on here for his coning tool, caliber specific. Easy to use.

The Doc is out now.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Garden hose is perhaps a bit over gunned but water and a brush to clean the stripper out is on track. You will find that the factory finishing isn’t up to your standards and some sanding is necessary. You can straighten out some details as well. Use a ruler to check that flats are flat and contours flow smoothly.
Go easy if you cone the barrel it takes very little to make it work well. I just use my thumb and a bit of sand paper with complete satisfaction.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

If you are going to cone it, find Flintsteel on here for his coning tool, caliber specific. Easy to use.

The Doc is out now.

Got one and already coned a plains rifle. Works as advertised. Don't recall who made the suggestion, but using a patch on the internal end to keep from grinding the rifling further down the barrel is a capitol idea.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

I would like to stain the stock a deep brown color. How many times can I stain walnut before I get minimal returns? How long do I leave each coat on before wiping off?
Also, has anyone ever used boiled linseed oil on a gun stock? If not, what do you recommend?

 

[Phil Coffins]

Boiled linseed oil is a poor finish and wasn’t used in the old days. BLO is a component of a varnish type finish that was used but not by it self. Many knowledgeable people have covered it on this forum. Tru-oil among many BLO based finish’s will work very well.

 

[springfield art]

Too much water will swell the wood!

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

I didn't power wash it. Just the hose on a trickle with a brush. In the heat and humidity it is drying out quickly.
Any advice in staining procedures?

 

[Tumbledown]

Try leather dye for staining the wood.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Thanks JB67, but your avatar pic got me thinking. I have some wood stain that is labeled "gunstock" procured from Lowes. Never liked it on my knife scales but tried it in the barrel channel and it looked really good. Went ahead and stained the entire stock and it came out with the color of the stock in your picture. I'm going to put at least one more coat on. Should I lightly sand the wood before applying the next coat? Would it benefit any to do that?

 

[duca]

Pictures please

 

[Tumbledown]

Thanks JB67, but your avatar pic got me thinking. I have some wood stain that is labeled "gunstock" procured from Lowes. Never liked it on my knife scales but tried it in the barrel channel and it looked really good. Went ahead and stained the entire stock and it came out with the color of the stock in your picture. I'm going to put at least one more coat on. Should I lightly sand the wood before applying the next coat? Would it benefit any to do that?

That is actually a blend of Saddle Tan and Dark Brown Fiebring's leather dye on my stock, which happens to be a Traditions kit. I haven't done much with wood stains.

 

[Grenadier1758]

Thanks JB67, but your avatar pic got me thinking. I have some wood stain that is labeled "gunstock" procured from Lowes. Never liked it on my knife scales but tried it in the barrel channel and it looked really good. Went ahead and stained the entire stock and it came out with the color of the stock in your picture. I'm going to put at least one more coat on. Should I lightly sand the wood before applying the next coat? Would it benefit any to do that?

I would use one of the finer Scotch Brite pads in gray or white between coats to take down any raised grain while not taking too much stain off the surface.