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Savage16
PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:45 pm  Reply with quote
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Wondering if anyone knows what the factory used to finish the wood in 1940 on a field grade?Varnish?Shellac?

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hayseed
PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:39 pm  Reply with quote



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Sounds like this is right up Pine Creek Dave’s alley.
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Pine Creek/Dave
PostPosted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:14 pm  Reply with quote



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Savage16,

In reality Hunter Arms made their own Spar Varnish & stains to finish & refinish their stocks, all you can do is try to match it, with what ever modern varnish and stain that is close.
Unfortunately you can not purchase off the shelf what they mixed at the factory. Rich Painter did all my stock refinishing, and he retired and is no longer in business, so I can not ask him what he used, when he refinished my stocks. He was very very good at restoring stocks.

Jerry Andrews in WVa maybe able to help you with this refinish job, give him a call at 304-281-5776 or 304-843-1740.

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Rich restored/refinished both my #2 gun and my 00 gun when they needed done.




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PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:40 am  Reply with quote
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Check out "How were the shotgun stocks originally finished?" under the Maintenance and Restoration FAQs here
https://lcsca.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=274&club_id=43784

No. 00, 0, Field & Ideal grade guns were finished with shellac; similar to Zinsser Bulls-Eye 3 Pound Cut Amber Shellac.
Higher grade guns were "Rose Oil" finished; a formula which included Spar Varnish, Japan Drier, boiled linseed oil, and other secret stains and ingredients.

David Williamson's French Polish tutorial in here
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/17541668

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Pine Creek/Dave
PostPosted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:57 pm  Reply with quote



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Swampy16,

Rev doc is correct, different grade guns were finished in different manners using different varnishes and cut shellac. The point is you just can not purchase them off the shelf today.

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