Just cleaning a gun is no sin, it's good. That old oil can and probably has soaked into the wood. I always clean my old guns but I stop at refurbishing them. I don't reblue, etc. Sometimes I steam a stock to lift out some dings and sometimes I hit the metal parts with Liquid Wrench soaked 0000 steel wool. I also take it apart. I've found bugs in there, old bits of string and lots of dust and grime. Remove the gunk. I brush the parts with a tooth brush soaked in Hoppies No. 9. I also pass a patch and usually a copper wire brush down the bores, then I run about a dozen patches down there. I apply a thin coat of gun oil on the metal parts. I never put linseed oil on the wood. That stuff turns black over time.
Sometimes I apply beeswax to the stock, but I'm careful.
Clean up your Parker. Don't scrub it with anything. I avoid bright varnish like finishes like Tru Oil. Usually.
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