greasy wood after the cleanup
all of these stocks were hot tank cleaned, and were all grease ball soaked wood.. the close Carbine stock had to be done 2 times to remove all the grease.
note: all the stamps and markings came back up better then they were before they were tanked,
the heat raises the wood and helps the markings stand out better.
I can go "before and after" pics all day long also Chuck
and I have used Oven Cleaner on HUNDREDS of stocks also. Caustic Lye is what was USED to refinish/strip wood for a few hundred years, I think having a can of OCleaner on the shelf beats having to keep a "tank" of chemicals in my garage. there are usualy several ways to efficiently skin a cat, and with common sense, oven cleaner works extremely well. In fact, oven cleaner methods was taught to me by a German guild trained gunsmith.
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