Cosmoline or dark wood

[Brian Dick]

You lose the patina by cleaning with soap or ammonia. Sometimes it's necessary to clean wood if gluing/patching is needed before reassembly, etc. I'd just rub it out very gently with 0000 steel wool saturated with raw linseed oil. Wipe it off and Bob's your Uncle. Forget the boiled linseed oil. Everyone that thinks raw linseed doesn't dry is just plain wrong. They just don't know how to apply it correctly.

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[lyon13]

So I took a rag and rubbed them against my mosin and enfield's stocks. The enfield basically turned it black so i'm thinking that the enfield has less patina and more dirt on the stock. while the mosin was almost clean so a simple wipe down with BLO my be just what it needs while the enfield needs an actual cleaning. I'll most a video showing it in the morning if i can.

[browningautorifle]

the enfield needs an actual cleaning

It's going to take the patina off though, the shine. You can still make it look good after though.

[lyon13]

It's going to take the patina off though

ok guess the both need some BLO