So I have a dent steaming question on oil finished stock.

[mauser284]

So I am finishing a stock from scratch. I have my read oil applied and it was drying. I had it hanging from a coat hanger and nail in my basement. The nail came out of the floor joice it was nailed into by previous owner.

So now near the end of the forend on the bottom their are two deep dents. Visualy imagine if you took a jewler flat tip screw driver and drove it 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch into the wood. When it feel in landed on the square tubeing of my BowFlex exercise machine bounced and hit again. Will this steam out or will I need to fill the wood and dye the filler?

When I have steamed out stock dents before it has always been on a striped down stock and they fairly shallow round dents.

How will this affect my red oil drying on the stock?


I just got my talc powder in the mail and went down stairs to check on the stock. I and it feel on demand as if on cue! It was terrible to watch it was like watching a child get hit by a car or something like that in slow motion.

Oh I was going to use talc powder and the red oil with a little Japan Drier added to fill the grain.

Thanks for advice!

 

[Judd]

I’ve done it on linseed oil finished stocks and they come out…I wouldn’t suspect yours would be any different. Good luck.

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

I think it should steam out fine, and since you're early in the finishing process, shouldn't be noticeable.
I know that sick feeling of dropping a beautiful piece of work that you just finished gazing at lovingly. It feels like you just ran over one of your kids.

 

[mauser284]

Sorry for all the typos I was near the bottom of a bottle of wine when I thought to ask you guys for advice!

I am going to give it a go.


I have to admit my next batch of red oil I will makeit with BLO. The dry time on the thinned Tung Oil is crazy slow!

I wanted to have try the Tung oil and get the increased water proofing and resistance to mold. I had no idea how much longer raw Tung and diluted raw Tung oil takes to dry!!

Having worked with mostly BLO on rifle stocks with a few excursions into Spar Varnish and wipping poly BLO has to be my preference. That said even this early into my experiment with Tung oil I can already tell it is much more durable than BLO and much smoother almost greasy feeling. It penitrates much deeper than BLO. So Pro's and Con's. BLO is much more user friendly though!

 

[mauser284]

Well it worked. I got one dent completly out. The second dent is 95% out. I did have some lifting of the oil finish where it was being wicked into the damp rag when the iron was applied.

I hit it with some 0000 steel wool and red oil and then an hour later I wiped off the excess and all is right with the universe again.

I will give it a week to settle and dry and will fill the grain.


I had one other problem spot. So I was not happy with how dark my red oil turned the wood. So I attempted to sand it back a bit to see if I could get a color that more closely matched what I wanted. All was fantastic and the stock was impervious to the sanding in all but one spot. That spot was the flat part of the cheeck comb. Not the high spots the flat. I was using a sanding block and started with 320 grit and progressed to 400 grit. It lost it's color in that spot and that spot alone very quickly. I stoped and tried to add red oil back to it. It was only partialy sucessful. The grain must be totaly filled in that area because even many coats in that area alone will not get it back to the color of the rest of the stock. I even tried sanding with red oil in that area hoping to get it to penetrate but no luck. It is better but not at all perfect. I have never had this happen before.

I only do stock work about every 10-15 years so there is a lot that I have never seen before or had to deal with. In fact until this stock I have not run into a single problem. So I guess I am over due!

 

[ricco1949]

Photos???

 

[mauser284]

Recently my phone is not sending my photo's to my gmail account. I have taken photo's of the stock at each step but they are not getting from my phone to my gmail account.

It is an android phone. Any idea's?

I took photos of my red oil, the stock before red oil, and it's current state. I have tried to upload them.

 

[mauser284]

I previously posted the pre-red oil photo's in a thread on red oil. Then issues. That was a couple of weeks ago. I will try to figure out why it is not working.

 

[ChrisNZ]

Steaming out dents depends on the type of damage. If the dent is a soft radiused shallow divet , chances are you can fully steam it out. If the dent was caused by impact with a sharp object and it has cut through wood fibers, the prognosis isn't so rosy.

Good luck with your endeavors.

 

[mauser284]

I just tried sending the photos again and no luck.

I ordered a female USB C to male USB data adapter from Amazon and I should have it by tomorrow. Still have no clue why just a few weeks apart my phone suddenly will not send the images to my email???