Wingmaster stock and fore-end

[mukwah]

Lucky Day, Lucky Day!!! Traded a couple of knives today for an original '70s vintage Remington Wingmaster stock and fore end! Much better quality, walnut, grain and checkering! Can't wait to get started stripping this baby down and doing my thing to it! I'm gonna put it on my grandson's 870 Express I bought him last year. It will have to wait a while as I have a couple of other irons in the fire right now!!

 

[SkipD]

Those are looking really nice right now. I can only imagine what a more loving touch will do to them.

 

[mukwah]

They're in good shape Skip. Couple of dings and scratches and that heavy poly finish that I don't like. Just dosen't show the grain off like it should!JMHO

 

[rayzer007]

This will be interesting! Looks good now; can't wait to see the difference after the master's hand works it!

Ray

 

[SkipD]

They're in good shape Skip. Couple of dings and scratches and that heavy poly finish that I don't like. Just dosen't show the grain off like it should!JMHO

Do you do any work with checkering? My son does. He learned how to do checkering from scratch with totally manual tools and does a really great job at it. I'd suspect that with the tools he uses one could clean up existing checkering very nicely when stripping a stock to refinish it.

 

[mukwah]

Never done any checkering other than clean up work but I plan getting more into that as retirement gets a little closer. Got 3-4 more years to gather tools etc. I especially love the work being done by some of the non conventional artists like Esmarelda, she does some amazing things with wood! http://www.esmeralda.cc/

 

[TRIGGER_1]

Looks like a nice project...Cant wait to see it...... 8)

 

[RICHGCOOP]

The Wingmasters come with a real nice piece of black walnut on them. They will come out real fine.

RICHGCOOP

 

[framedcraig1]

Yep...they will. Hard to beat real wood on a gun. Gets me thinking about my pistols......

 

[mukwah]

Go two projects this weekend (plus my Honey-Do List). First I'm gonna move my safe to a differant spot in my work room. And second is to finally strip these badboys! Prolly gonna be a job taking off that thick poly finish that Remington is famous for. Got my checkering taped up to try to keep gook out so we'll see how she goes!

 

[bigdogdaddy]

Wow. I am glad that is tape. For just a second I thought somebody had actually walked around with a gun looking like that. ??? :

 

[mukwah]

Well, being a 12 ga pump I don't think anybody would say anything about it!LOL;D

 

[bigdogdaddy]

That is probably true, at least not where they could hear.

 

[framedcraig1]

Yeah...20 gauge ...maybe. 12 gauge...no comment!

 

[TRIGGER_1]

Hope to see the finished product soon.........

 

[mukwah]

In the rough. Poly stripped, time for sanding!

 

[SkipD]

In the rough. Poly stripped, time for sanding!

I'm curious - what did you use to strip the poly finish?

 

[mukwah]

Skip,I used Klean-Strip KS-3 Premium. Stripping any heavy poly finish is a major chore but this stuff works pretty good. Took about three coats with 15-20 min set time between coats and lots of scraping. As with anything worthwhile, patience is key!

 

[framedcraig1]

Any diffrernt stain in mind? (dark...or light)

 

[mukwah]

I've got some Watco Danish Oil in medium walnut stain, then about 7-8 coats of Tru Oil and finish with a couple of coats of wax. Should turn out nice. The sanding proceedure is what will bring out the grain and really show off the wood.