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Old 06-27-2022, 07:37 PM
JDHasty JDHasty is offline
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Default A really nice, but not totally unexpected surprise

I’ve been sitting on an Encore walnut butt stock I needed to shorten and put a pad on. They really look like crap unless the montecarlo is shortened as well. So I finally got round to taking that job on yesterday. It was just another blasé TC “factory stock” that was sourced from Boyd’s. It had the TC branded pad with warning as well as the Boyd’s brand under the grip cap.

So, I finish up the pad and reshaping and grab our Bosch palm sander to take the finish off and beneath the “mud” poly finish that they use to darken the stock, which also covers the grain and figure, it is actually a pretty darn nicely figured butt stock. Not that anyone would have ever know that, had I not stripped it.

I am refinishing it with Tru Oil. I’ve seen that a lot with TC factory stocks. I’ve seen Ruger walnut stocks that looked pretty decent originally that looked like a 2x4 after someone removed the original finish. Whatever procedure Ruger uses actually does enhance the walnut sap wood they use a lot of. That guk that is used on TC wood stocks does nothing but make everything look worse to me.

I’ll put a picture of it up once I finish it up.

Last edited by JDHasty; 06-27-2022 at 08:37 PM.
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