Re: Schmidt Rubin, Model G11
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:41 am
And finally, before I ship Roberts off to him, a pic of them both together.......
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Well I got all the makings together and boiled them up today. After they were well mixed I poured them into a basin to set and put the pan down by the burner I had been using - it caught fire Iput it out and turned off the gas............ArchFluffy wrote:Yay! It's finally arrived!
Okay, when I decide to refinish my old Swiss rifles I use this recipe. It's supposed to be the old one for the old walnut stocks.
30% Turpentine
30% Linseed oil (raw, not the boiled kind)
30% fruit (wine) vinegar
10% bee's wax
The hardest part is heating the liquid to melt the wax into it. Or maybe finding raw linseed oil is the hardest part. Waiting for real bee's wax and not some petrol paraffin substitute to arrive in the mail is really hard too.
Be careful heating all this flammable stuff to melt the wax! Once the wax is dissolved into the mix it stays dissolved. You can melt the wax in a separate container and the pour it in but it will harden when it hits the cool liquid. That's why you'll probably end up needing to heat it all anyway.
Rub it on with some kind of lint free cloth. Try applying the first coat warm. Drying times may be long time because raw linseed oil does not have drying agents in it like the stuff found in a hardware store. I think I left my Vetterli stock up for a couple of weeks for the second coat. Waiting might be the hardest part. Yeah, it is.
But the finish that this gives is wonderful. Not super shiny and not that sort of plastic feel that some finishes give. It's more like satin. With the wax in it I bet you can buff it to a shine if you want. I only ever use two coats.
You can store the finish in a can for other projects.
Hope this helps!
-ArchFluffy