how to proced with stock???

[ClaytonCarter]

When refinishing a stock, I routinely read that after an acetone soak to clean, de-oil the stock, the acetone soak should be followed with a soak in denatured alcohol. My questions are : (1) what is the typical duration of the alcohol soak and what is the metric by which one can tell the alcohol soak has accomplished all that it is going to do and (2) besides removing the finish which if shellac should occur quickly with alcohol, what is the purpose of soaking the stock in alcohol for days? Thanks.

[J. A. EARLY]

Since you have the stock off, whether you remove the old finish with acetone or not, take a hair dryer on the hot setting to the receiver end of the stock and watch the oil ooze out. Wipe it of and repeat until you are satisfied no more is coming out. Don't get it too hot by being too close, but one can bet there is 100 years worth of oil in there.