It's my WASR-10 GP

Some days I think the wood is a little rough, some days I like it as it is.

Would you guys replace this wood?

If so, what would you replace it with?

maybe get an ironwood stock set?

looks pretty good to me.  Since I'm cheap, I'd probably just sand and refinish.

just keep it feed

stuck

the only i'd do is find a romanian laminated palmswell lower hg, then finish the stock set.  oh, put a krebs peep sight on it.

+1 for refinishing the stock

I think it looks fine. AK's aren't required to have museum quality wood. They just work. Enjoy it as it is.  GARY  N4KVE

This.

I have a WASR side folder just about like it and decided to do a little refinishing on it. The laminate was soaked with cosmoline (I guess) so I tried the old baking in the oven at about 150 deg. trick. The hand guards sweated out a ton whatever in a couple of hours. I cleaned them with break cleaner and sanded them down nice and smooth and stained them with Minwax red mahogany. They turned out looking better than I expected so I let that dry for a day or so and went to seal them with some satin poly. I applied a couple of light coats like the can said and left them to dry overnight. The next morning I went running like a 6 year old at Christmas to see what I had and the poly was still real tackey. I went to work, came home and still tackey...Shit! I gave it another day and still tacky so I stripped the hand guards down with denatured alcohol and baked them again without much result but the stain still looked good. I tried the poly again and with the same results as before...Shit! Aw hell, it's just my beater gun anyway so I took some 0000 steel wool and kinda buffed them nice and smooth after cleaning them with alcohol (the stain still looks good) and wiped a coat of olive oil on them. They look freakin awsome!!! I figure a little touch up on them now and again will keep them looking good and they sort of smell like a greak salad. I have used tung oil before but not olive oil!

Aim's WASR?   For $399 you can't go wrong.

Shoot it a while and then think about what additions might enhance it.

Put a set of plum polymer furniture on it.

sand it down, stain it red.  makes a world of difference.

Shoot the crap out of it.

Did that

I would maybe stain it a deeper red, but I like the kinda scratched up look.

soak it in tung oil, get a finish on it. me personally I would darken it a tad, but I like dark wood ak stocks

Stock Refinishing FTW! I have done an SKS stock and a Romy furniture set. It is very rewarding.

All that wood needs is some 0000 steel wool, some elbow grease, and either tung oil or boiled linseed oil.  0000 steel wool will get it slick as a baby's butt.

My Romy RPK suffered from dry. listless wood too.

Tung oil and steel wool was the answer. BSW

That stock has a nice sheen

What brand tung oil and how many coats?

yes I would, and I did.

I bought the same gun in december of 06 for 300 bucks

this is what it looks like now



that's a Nato length Kvar stock with a 1" long picitanny rail mounted to the bottom of the forend for mounting my TLR-1

I also have a 3 point Specter Gear sling with a clip on each end for quick attachment/detachment and an emergency release buckle.

i'm going to try a hogue grip as well when I have some spare play money next month

100% pure tung oil, not that crap that gets pawned off as tung oil but is actually 5% tung oil and 95% petroleum. As I recall it took about 6 coats before the tung oil stopped being sucked into the wood. I waited about 12 hours between coats. BSW