I picked up a used (rather heavily) Franchi Black Black Magic.
The metal isn't bad, and the action is super smooth so I'm focusing my attention first on the stock which is rough.
I have basic wood working skills from wood shop and understand starting with low grit, stay with the grain and work up.
Issue is there is a good amount of checkering. Checkering is way beyond my skills and tools, and honestly it doesn't look that bad.
As of now my plan is to mask off the checkering, sand around, and refinish with gunstock oil. I'm just not sure if it'll match after I'm done, and how it would look.
I can't really come up with any ways to remove finish from the checkering without destroying the checkering.
Any ideas?
As I'm setting this up as a a skeet gun, I've also considered applying a grippy type paint to the checkering. Not sure how that would come out either.
ETA I should specify, my wife's side of the family and their friends are well off, and enjoy skeet shooting. I enjoy it, but not enough to drop a few thousand on fancy guns.
Picked up this gun from Sarco, and plan to refinish it to make a nice looking, functional trap gun. I'll prob also use it for bird of I ever go too.