how to proced with stock???

[Big D]

I worked a stock with 0000 steel wool, then wiped the stock with water to raise whiskers and smooth it out. Bits of the steel wool lingering in the stock rusted, and left me with dozens of black freckles. Would suggest 0000 bronze wool, or at least stay away from water, unless it's being used to wake up a glass of single malt

[B. Dudley]

Yeah. You never want to use water on bare stock wood. It introduces unwelcomed moisture. I always use alcohol to do this. It gets the job done and evaporates quickly.

[Neil Richardson]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Neil

[Mike McKinney]

You might want to look at a web site for TimberLuxe. Myself and others talked to the gunsmith, Brian Board, who developed it, at the Southern this weekend. I had seen the web site before and was interested in it. He was showing a stock he had used it on, maybe his results are more difficult than his claims, but it sure was a pretty stock with a very good hue. I came home with a couple of bottles.

[Opening Day]

Mike must have missed him at the Southern, what's his website?

[Mike McKinney]

That web site is timberluxe.com I had heard of it, even watched a video, which was pretty interesting, that i can't find now, possibly on You Tube. He was explaining the product to another member when I met him and remembered the endorsement.