I've been cleaning up my milsurp stocks and then coating them with BLOicon and they are coming along nicely. I put a coat on a day for about two weeks and that seems to do it as they stop absorbing it around that time.

My question involves a civilian rifle with a walnut stock. This rifle is about 25 years old and has seen extensive hunting use as my primary deer rifle. It had a varnished stock from the factory that over the years was becoming more yellowed, cracked and brittle so I decided to remove it and put BLOicon on it too. The stock was dry as a bone. I put the BLO on and it shined right up. But that's as far as it's gone. It absorbed it to a small degree but it's been sitting there with a semi-liquid sheen on it for three days now. It looks nice but it didn't absorb much at all. Anyone know why one coat seems to have saturated it?
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