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Posted: 5/21/2015 12:15:43 AM EDT
Kinda looks like the varnish or stain has boiled out of the wood.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 12:19:59 AM EDT
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I have that on a shotgun to a smaller scale. Look just behind the checkering on the stock.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 5:28:37 AM EDT
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I think (based on my grandma's use of varnish on old book cases and furniture) that the stock has been refinished (a long time ago) with a type of varnish and the wood wasn't really good and clean when it was applied.
And, love those Win. M1895's. Do you have more pictures to share. I saw my first one at Potomac Arms in Alexandria, VA in 1976. It was a 30.06 and I wanted it so bad. PFC's just didn't make enough money to buy one of those so I had to just admire it from across the counter. |
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Posted: 5/21/2015 6:13:28 AM EDT
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It sat near a heat source like in a corner near a wood stove. The heat leeches the oil finish to the surface and it hardens over time through many cycles of heating/cooling.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 6:38:44 AM EDT
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Looks like water under the finish. Near a heat source would make the water in the wood push through the finish.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 7:59:03 AM EDT
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I've seen it on old furniture.
I'll venture you don't shoot that old rifle a lot. I'd probably leave it as-is for the next owner. |
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Posted: 5/21/2015 8:28:03 AM EDT
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That is old varnish checking. There should be a way to strip it off as it is not what would have been used from the factory.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 9:35:53 AM EDT
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1922 I need to find some light 30-06 loads. |
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Posted: 5/21/2015 9:54:54 AM EDT
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Beautiful gun. Thanks.
I'll bet it's a great little deer rifle in the woods. |
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Posted: 5/21/2015 6:22:26 PM EDT
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Looks EXACTLY like the 120+ tear old oak chair and table legs at the farm.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 6:54:02 PM EDT
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Had the same thing on a old Triumph 12ga single shot I got from my aunt. I stripped it and refinished. It sat in a garage in south Texas right next to a arroyo that flooded occasionally. So, as said above, repeated heating in a high humidity area is the most likely cause.
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Posted: 5/21/2015 10:24:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Posted: 5/25/2015 1:01:49 PM EDT
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Had an old timer explain how to clean up my 120yr old banister, had same varnish scale as your gun.
50/50 linseed oil and turpentine (he said to heat it up..but I didn't) soaked in a rag and put some elbow grease into rubbing the wood. Cleans and revarnishes at the same time... Pretty sure would of been 1/2 the work if I did it hot. Came out real nice.. But was tacky for a good 3 days. It's good to know not all varnish is the same...so test in a safe area. |
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Posted: 5/29/2015 11:51:59 PM EDT
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I have a K98az that had sat in my uncles attic in Missouri since he brought it back after WWII that has the same bubbled finish. Its a 1917 dated rifle with a 1920 Treaty of Versailles acceptance stamp on it. He got it in Italy while he served as a medical corpsman. I was the first one to shoot it since it was fired by a German soldier during the war!
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