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Does anyone know if there is some way of treating the wood stocks and forearms where they have been dented or the timber has been damaged in a crushing manner. Someone said you can use damp warm heat to try and get the timber to "swell"back.
August 5, 2009
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I have had success with minor dents by using a damp towel and then heating it with an clothes iron.
I have only done this on oil finished stocks, not on varnished finishes
Thanks so Much. Do you have an idea when winchester started varnishing their lever action rifles? All of mine are pre 1928.
Many thanks.
May 2, 2009
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You will loose the finish but I used a hobby iron and the damp cloth years ago and it worked good. If grain has been broken like it got hit by something with a edge, the broken grain will always be visible even after you refinish.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
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There are shellac bar in several colours for repairs of dents and gnarls in furniture wood. You melt it into the wood as you would do when sealing a letter with wax. Having applied it and let it cold, you can form it with a fine file and then polish.
Pete
May 2, 2009
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I saw a guy at a gun show filling scratches in a stock with that type of process.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
December 30, 2011
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Bob
You and I might have seen the same guy. He was plenty busy working right there at the shows the couple times I saw him.
Brad
January 19, 2013
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Steam iron applied directly over the dent do not allow it to remain in one place long enough to burn.
You can take a drop of ethanol drop it on the wood in the dent allow it to soak in a sec or two and hit it with a match as the wood raises whip the fire out with a wet cloth.
I have used both in my woodworking for the last 44 years.
May 2, 2009
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I have used the iron and the damp cloth method a few times but you have to refinish the area afterwards.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
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