Zonie- wow! That’s a Lyman? Unbelievable. How did you remove the factory finish and what did you use to refinish it?I posted these pictures elsewhere on the forum but, here is what the walnut on my Lyman GPR looks like after the factory varnish was removed and replaced with a stock finish oil. Yes, it is natural curly walnut.
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Yes, I love brown guns and when I finished my pistol kit, I did brown the barrel and nose cap. That was fun, but way easier with a pistol-size barrel in terms of making a humidity chamber for the browning process. Not sure that I’m ready to commit that much effort for this Lyman. But the barrel and other hardware certainly would look better (to my eye) browned.I would remove the factory finish with 'Circa 1856' stripper, then sand it all down and refinish with linseed or one of the plastic oil finishes. I would also remove the bluing from the barrel, etc and brown all of that, I also get rid of the adjustable rear sight, and replace it with a more traditional Hawken buckhorn. Have fun with it.
I didn't do the refinishing on this GPR. It was that way when I bought it at a gunshow. I also didn't inlet the blond wood diamond but whoever did the job did it right.Zonie- wow! That’s a Lyman? Unbelievable. How did you remove the factory finish and what did you use to refinish it?
I use a long skinny plastic bag for a barrel curing chamber; I just hang the barrel up by the tang hole, apply the solution, and slide the bag up and over .Yes, I love brown guns and when I finished my pistol kit, I did brown the barrel and nose cap. That was fun, but way easier with a pistol-size barrel in terms of making a humidity chamber for the browning process. Not sure that I’m ready to commit that much effort for this Lyman. But the barrel and other hardware certainly would look better (to my eye) browned.
As for the sites, I have already replaced the Lyman sites because (1) The rear site adjustment screw kept falling out, and (2) my eyes aren’t what they used to be and struggle to focus on the factory sites. I had to replace them with non-PC fiber optic sites. This is a hunting gun, so I was willing to sacrifice on the PC in order to increase accuracy and likelihood of an ethical harvest
Thanks Bob. Forgot to mention that when I draw filed the barrel in preparation for browning I kept going until all the Italian writing was gone.That’s the finest example I’ve seen of a GPR. I love the metal and stock finish both. Nifty.
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