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Ouch philpot! Thats not good! Hope its not too expensive for you! Maybe put your airgun project on the side for a bit and enjoy the guns you have. Dam cars! I used to have cars like that. Never again. Wish you the best of luck with both

Dont mess about you have allready wasted enough money! send it for creakote or professional blue

Aww bugger. Bite the bullet. Strip it (its simple) send it to that creakoting place you mentioned. A tack driver you mention, well worth the effort. Clean out polish piston, new piston seal and refit same spring. Spraypaint will soon look shite (i made that mistake - you will regret it) too good of a gun to bodge especially if you get the stock looking good.

Hi philpot im looking forwards to see how you get on with the bluing. Iv used the birchwood kit on a fn19 air tube. It went ok but was not as black as I hoped. There was quite a contrast between it and the barrel. My brother did the barrels of an old english hammergun. He polished it up with a angle grinder polishing disk, I thaught what the hell are you doing 🫣! He used paint sprayers degreaser (thinners?) and made a bath for the barrels from guttering. Wow they came up good. He polished them afterwards with oil. Im pretty sure it was gearbox oil if I remember right. This is the stu

Wait and get tru oil, gloss it will look mint. You can allways make it matt if you dont like it.

I bet it would pop nicely under a nice gloss tru oil finnish Please help me change his mind lol

Looks good, the darker patches make it look better!

Apologies philpot i did not realise you have used tru oil before, hope i wasnt patronising i got a bit carried away lol. Your making me want to do another stock now. You made the right choice in colour!

Good luck for your meeting, sounds a great job!

Also iv never done this but iv heared bleaching the stock may help to remove the dark areas? May be worth researching. Jimmy will proberbly know if this may be worth trying.

I must admit i did not like the sound of the blue stain but wow that looks good! I think id pick that if it was me. tru oil it! Spray water on it then let it dry to make it hairy and keep doing that untill its smoth as glass for when the stain is applied it wont go hairy again lol. Its all in the preperation. You can make it very glossy or nock it back to mat with some extra fine wire wool. Tru oil for gun stocks makes them pop! Do the chequering last with a little bit of tru oil on a toothbrush so it doesnt get filled in and stays crisp. I used to hang my stocks in the shower where its dust

Thats basic

Oh wow, will you be doing it yourself?

That will end up nice, good advice jimmy. 135 quid for creakote get it done if its a good one! New piston seal, clean out and polish - bit of bumslide. Bit of red dye in the wood stain before a tru-oil Gun for life there! Really hope to see updates how you get on!

People who change when there is more than the two of you.