Can anyone tell me about this stock?

[INLAND44]

Its TUNG oil. And you don't know how to use RLO judging by the comments. RLO is SPARINGLY applied to the wood using a small cloth like a rifle cleaning patch. It is absorbed by the wood fairly quickly and there's no long wait for 'polymerization' because that doesn't happen - it just continues to permeate the wood. You can cut RLO with turpentine which is the way I like to use it and it absorbs even quicker. You can use BLO if you wish to have 'surface polymerization' or 'varnish' and this is another ideal case for cutting with Turpentine.
On a nice show stock, I would use 'Arrow Stock oil' which is something else you need to learn how to use. In a nutshell, you begin the job by working it into a small section of the stock with #100 wet/dry paper. It takes just a minute for it to begin to get gummy, finally you realize that's all you can do at that spot. You continue this until you do the whole piece of wood, then move up to #600 and do it again. You continue in this fashion until you get to #1200 or so, then change to the bare hand. By this time its beginning to look like it was dipped in glass, and its a perfect finish that no spray can or brush job can equal. Its a labor of love but when its done you can't take your eyes off the stock.
For a more matte but still transparent finish like on a fine hunting gun, you can put BLO on a piece of #0000 steel wool and rub the wood 'dry', repeating to build up the thickness, only one round a day.

[painter777]

Way to Welcome the new member !!

[painter777]

If he wants his SA FAT Carbine Stock looking fancy and can come anywhere close to the results he achieved on this one.
I'm surely not going to question his methods.
If that's what he wants, I say Pimp That Ride !

BTW, M1 C FAN is looking to purchase a Carbine Birch 4 Rivet Hand Guard with some Tiger Stripe Grain.
If you see one or can help out feel free to send him a PM.

Thanks,

[M1 C FAN]

Thank You Painter. I would say My results Speak for themselves. I would hold my stocks up to any finisher in the world. These stocks take approximately 6-7 weeks " Labor of Love". I`M NOT IN THE MOOD TO GET IN SOME UNNEEDED DEBATE ABOUT MY TECHNIQUES or SPEALLING ABITTILIES. I really thought I could just ask some questions (this is my first M1 Carbine not my first Rodeo) and maybe show off some of my work. Painter777 you have been nothing but helpful and I really apprieciate that I would hope I could expect that from SENIOR Members. For anyone who is interested the Picture is of the first oil sanding getting a uniform 150 finish building a slurry to fill the grain with. The toughest part of any finish job is getting every single part to a 100% uniform finish for each grit reduction before moving to the next finer grit. Then if everything is going right when you get to 600-800 grit magic begins to happen and you begin to actually see into the grain of wood and not just the surface. Finishing techniques are varied and beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[M1 C FAN]

Yes please I would love to find a hand guard to match this. She is already lighting up with fire and I haven't even began. This is going to turn out to be a pure gem. It has the best starting potential I have seen In along time. I can`t believe it was only $45 on Ebay. I would expect to pay more than that for a hand guard alone.

[browningautorifle]

I would expect to pay more than that for a hand guard alone.

And normally you would have...

[M1 C FAN]

And normally you would have...

I know I can`t believe my luck finding this with a buy it now price???? It had only been listed for 2 minutes though when I bought it. Came from a gentleman just across the river from me in Vancouver he even offered to meet me at the gun show the next day and refund my shipping but I was going turkey Hunting. I don`t care who makes the hand guard doesn't have to be GI a commercial is Fine. The wood it`s self is all I`m really interested in.

[M1 C FAN]

I have no problems paying fair market value for a nice piece of wood and sometimes more than that for a piece I just have to have. A great deal can never be passed up though. The great deals on Ebay can be found with patients. But I think I could have quicker results finding one from the community though.

[jimb16]

I've been saying for quite a few years now, "wood is king"! Good wood is getting harder to find.

[M1 C FAN]

That just sets it up to be knocked down. Yeah at my age good strong WOOD is harder and harder to find.....