Help!! To clean or not....Garand stock

[heckinohio]

I was digging through my Garand wood assemblage and notice some of it is slimy, some sticky and other pieces seem just plain dirty. Is there a proper process for cleaning this wood????

Any other comment???

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[jjroth]

1. Clean with Murphy's oil soap and hot water dry in sun, but keep turning it.
Apply BLO or Tung Oil

2. Use claen rag and Scott's Liquid Gold for furniture let dry (outside, the fluid has petroleum solvent) and again oil.

3. HOtest water you can stand and q1/2 cup of Spin-n-Span, clean the wood clean of all coatings, let dry and oil

USe #3 id you really want to redo the various wood items.

[John Wyatt]

I just use some mineral spirits on a rag and wipe down the wood as needed. It seems to get the grime off with out losing the stock's patina and color. I then apply a coat or two of BLO

[Milsurp Collector]

Take a look at CMP Wood Cleaning Article

[snell]

Everything you could possibly want to know about stock cleaning:

http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirearm...-cleaning.html

and the guys on the forum are tops when it comes to helping out. Just don't mention any Bubba-fying, they get cranky!

[U.S.G.I.]

I've been using gojo and it works great. I use the smooth not the pumice kind.

[frankderrico]

Hey Heck, everybody has their own way of getting the job done and they are all good. Here is a Mauser stock I did this winter for a restoration. It had so much oil and grime it looked like a creasoted power pole! I started with oooo steel wool and denatured alchohol very lightly, then go-jo I like the gritty type with hot water. Then the steam iron, it opens the pores in the wood and gets the stuburn dirt out. I put the iron on soaked towels and keep moveing across the entire piece. I let it dry overnight, get rid of the fuzzies and then start the BLO, but I warm it up. Hope this and all the other advice helps....Fraank



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[mtykim]

stick it in the dishwasher on the pots & pans setting. comes out super clean down to bare wood, no joke. i read about it somewhere and i tried it on my garand stock, let it dry for a few days (in a cool shaded area) then put some oil on it, came out real nice. just make sure you run the dishwasher on empty a few times afterwards to wash out all the oil.