What's on your WORK BENCH ? APRIL 2021

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I purchased a pair of 1959 origin Browning/FN Superposed 12 gauges in IC/Mod and F/Mod with 28' barrels; one from Texas and the other from Washington. The initial pic is of the F/Mod choked gun. The series of pics were taken after I received the reblued reciever back from Art isaacson's shop and partially reassembled it with the barrel set I had slow rust blued. There were some blue spots missing on left side and numerouse fine scratches in the barrels along with some blue wear at their tips and marked blue loss on the receiver from hand-carry. As you can note, not much finish remained on the forearm rear panels, replaced with hand grime and oil in the checkering on both pieces of stock. The buttstock was heavily worn at the wrist and had several strong dents and scratched on both faces. After stripping the wood, I performed a series of sequential soaks in acetone to pull the grime out of the checering and wood near the receiver on the fore arm. I thinned Permalyn Oil stock sealer by 70% with mineral spirits prior applying with #320 wet/Dry, with a second coat thinned to 50% sanded-in and left to dry as well. I added a little Alkaneet root oil to deepen the grain prior both sealer applications. After drying, I applied painter tape to the checkered fields and began sanding-in Pilkington's Gold/Brown stock finish oil with #600 wet/dry Swiss sandpaper. After three days drying between coats at 45% humidity I eventually arrived at seven coats. I took the picture while the stock cures, prior application of Pilkinton's linseed oil finish, cut 50% with mineral spirits in paper-thin sequential coats to restore sheen and further seal the wood. Five coats of the thinned surface sealer were applied to the checkering fields, assisted by a hair dryer.
 
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Steve, you can make even a park duck look elegant!
And bring out the subtle beauty of a black duck.
 
Back in the shop again, but only for short bursts, as m shoulder seems to be fighting me with things as simple as getting a brush into water to clean and combing gadwall bodies--However, each trip to the dungeon is better than the last. Have only the bill to paint on a mallard drake to finish that deke! Enjoying P T! Each trip produces improvements.
 
As a top-notch wood worker, do you have any Tung oil wood finishes you would recommend for outdoor use?

By smell, I suspect that the Permalyn sealer is composed largely of tung oil, but the contents are "proprietary" accordig to the manufacturer.
 
RLLigman said:
As a top-notch wood worker, do you have any Tung oil wood finishes you would recommend for outdoor use?

By smell, I suspect that the Permalyn sealer is composed largely of tung oil, but the contents are "proprietary" accordig to the manufacturer.[/quot


1 Gallon mineral spirits, 1/2 quart boiled linseed oil, 1/2 pound to 3/4 pound paraffin wax.
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