Traditional Oil Stock Finishing

[whatwind?]

Another red oiling

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

Another red oiling

That's a very nice piece of wood. What species?

 

[whatwind?]

English walnut, got it from cook woods

 

[SGK]

Nice!

 

[SGK]

For anyone thinking of making some 'red oil' do NOT use alkanet powder. You'll never get the residue out of the oil. Use alkanet root chips. You want stained oil not a some sort of red matcha.

 

[whatwind?]

getting there

 

[CharlieNC]

For anyone thinking of making some 'red oil' do NOT use alkanet powder. You'll never get the residue out of the oil. Use alkanet root chips. You want stained oil not a some sort of red matcha.

I soaked the powder in alcohol and used as a dye, cleaned, then oiled with no issues.

 

[SGK]

getting there

Steady as she goes. It can be a battle of attrition and so slowly but surely is the name of the game.Keep working in that rottenstone until there's no hint of grain.

 

[SGK]

I soaked the powder in alcohol and used as a dye, cleaned, then oiled with no issues.

Different strokes... lots of ways to do it.

The idea behind the stained linseed oil is that it penetrates deeply into the wood. When I was at Purdey the guy brought out a cross-section of one of their finished stocks. You could clearly see the finish had penetrated more than a quarter inch in.

 

[SGK]

getting there

Is that residual rottenstone sitting in the vents? I hope you are wiping everything you want finished very clean after each application (including, I assume, in those slots). (Apply the finish, wait for it to go tacky, wipe off, apply rottenstone to surface and work into grain, wipe off with the same rag with the still wet finish on it, buff everything 'clean', let dry. Repeat.)

 

[whatwind?]

Yes, it is residual stone and no I can’t finish inside the slots like the outside of the stock, I clean them out with a Q tip every other time.

 

[SGK]

@whatwind? how are you getting on?

 

[whatwind?]

Horribly…..I dropped it and it broke in half, my jointing design/execution was no good, it literally took my breathe away when it happened

I have since tried to glue it back and add a butterfly inlay and that didn’t go well either

Good thing is I have another board from this same wood that could be used to repair it by a pro, DIY this time sucked

 

[SGK]

Oh wow. I’m so sorry.

 

[Jonnyofalltrades]

Horribly…..I dropped it and it broke in half, my jointing design/execution was no good, it literally took my breathe away when it happened

I have since tried to glue it back and add a butterfly inlay and that didn’t go well either

Good thing is I have another board from this same wood that could be used to repair it by a pro, DIY this time sucked

What a heartbreaker!
So many hours and dollars...

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

Very impressive thread on refinishing this stock.

 

[whatwind?]

part Deaux, another rough duplicate and sanded all the way to 1000, going to add some color to it along with alkanet oil

 

[whatwind?]

Roasted maple on top and walnut on bottom

 

[SGK]

Update? (I still owe pics of my final result... )

 

[whatwind?]

Working on it