Botched mosin nagant stock refinishing...

Hey everyone, heres an update agian.

I was fortunate enough to meet a now good friend with woodworking skills, and I've told him about the blotching when applying a stain.

So what he did was take my stock to his workshop and stripped the tru oil I've already applied. He then told me he bleached the entire stock. I've then looked on numerous forums for a red stain, and I've found one. It involes RIT clothing dye from walmart and Iso alcohol.

70% Rit Scarlet
5% Rit Sunshine orange (Just a dash)
25% Isopropyl 90% alcohol

The solution was very red, and one coat of it was already enough. I've then applied 10 coats tru oil with 0000 steel wool between.

Finished result. I think I was able to fix my mistake.
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I have ~ 14 of the 91/30, M44, 91/59, M39, ect type rifles.

The Polish M44 rifles have stocks that look like birch and might be worth working on.
Some rifles have laminated stocks.
Boyd sells a Walnut stock for cheap, and there is one here:
http://www.boydsgunstocks.com/MOSIN-NAGANT-MBC-p/300-158.htm

But the old 91/30 stocks seem to be made of a very soft wood that is so full of oil, that the oil not only comes streaming out when the barrel is hot from shooting fast, but it can stream out if the rifle is left in the sunshine.

My guess is that they boiled these stocks in linseed oil and that type of wood soaks it up like a sponge.

This week I was filing through some of the stock for welded on scope mount relief, and I was just disgusted. It is like oily white mush.

I would avoid beautifying 91/30 stocks.
 
After stripping and sanding. I applied minwax prestain wood conditioner, next I used minwax Sedona Red 222. The final application was Zinsser Bullseye shellac amber . I apllied 4 coats of shellac sanding lightly with 320 grit between coats, then finishing the final coat with 0000 steel wool to remove the shine. The stock came out uniform in color with that red tone to it.
 
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