Russian Capture k98

[kar98k]

Jim,

If you aren't paying attention to what you're doing, you can damage wood by scraping but the way I do it is pretty harmless. All it is doing is putting slight pressure on the shellac and as it does not give, it breaks away.

I've tried various chemicals over the years, those especially made to remove finishes and had no success with any of them. They turned everything into a gooey mess that 3 different coatings still required me to in the end, scrape off what was left, but then, there was risk of damage as the mess remained somewhat of a goo and you were actually scraping off a bit of wood along with the goo to get it off.

Denatured alcohol was one that I haven't tried so it may be worth a shot. But I've had very good success with my method as well with no ill effects.

i recently had success with citristrip. here are before and after pictures for one of my rifles





the finish is BLO