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!