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Posted: 6/17/2009 8:26:43 PM EDT
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Refinish wood...yes
K-Var for plastic/polymer stocksets. Copes Distributing may have them instock |
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Posted: 6/17/2009 10:29:44 PM EDT
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you can do wonders with a wasr stock for less than $25.
wasr2 romanian hardwood stock minwax red mahogany zinser amber shellac  romy g romanian upper handguard and stock egyptian palmswell lower handguard minwax red oak zinser shellac 
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Posted: 6/18/2009 2:16:36 AM EDT
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you can do wonders with a wasr stock for less than $25. wasr2 romanian hardwood stock minwax red mahogany zinser amber shellac http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq293/badka2ma/100_0760-1.jpg romy g romanian upper handguard and stock egyptian palmswell lower handguard minwax red oak zinser shellac http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq293/badka2ma/100_0616.jpg Very nice! Gives me hope. How much sanding is involved? Thanks. |
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Posted: 6/18/2009 6:57:57 AM EDT
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I like the solid wood over the laminate...
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Posted: 6/18/2009 8:17:31 AM EDT
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I generally sand until smooth using ~180 grit sandpaper. Apply stain, let it dry, resand with 200 grit, apply more stain if necessary/desired, let it dry. Apply 3-6 coats of tung oil with 0000 steel wool. Done.
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Posted: 6/18/2009 8:34:49 AM EDT
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Just tried to refinish mine. Failed horribly. Never refinished any wood in my life before. Made a mess of it.
I'm replacing with black stock. |
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Posted: 6/18/2009 9:04:25 AM EDT
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Just tried to refinish mine. Failed horribly. Never refinished any wood in my life before. Made a mess of it. I'm replacing with black stock. Describe your process and maybe we can help. 
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Posted: 6/18/2009 11:28:38 AM EDT
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the good thing about wood is, you can always sand it back down. It's a bit forgiving, as long as you don't put huge pits in it.
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Posted: 6/18/2009 12:15:50 PM EDT
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Wood is very simple to finish or refinish. Here are some of my recent projects:
Egyptian Maadi before (I don'thave pics of the handguards, but they looked like shit - 
After - 
Bulgarian before - 
add unfinished Ironwood for a Hungarian AK (and slightly modified)- 
after - 
Even a Romanian can be made to look nice - 
This one is just as shiny, but I angled the wood so it would reflect less) 
even one that was run over by a truck and thoroughly abused.. 
to this...(take a good look at the last pic, it's the same wood in the handguards) 
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