Recently back from it's interrupted Eastern European Tour........

[TOrrock]

Gonna leave it as is or you gonna restore it to it's original finish?

I'm going to take the nasty shellac off, I've heard that denatured alcohol is a good method.

Don't know about the dip-blue....might actually look worse underneath.

[GermanSynergy]

How's the bore look?

My SWP 45 looks like the Soviets took it right off the production line in Czechoslovakia in '45 and it was never fired.

[48J]

Try Homer Formby's products. Formby's has a stripper to remove the old finish and follow-on to clean the wood and stop the stripper action. After that, your can use tongue oil, 0000 stainless steel wool and very fine sand paper to hand rub the finish on the stock. Oil finish was likely the original finish on the wood. Twenty coats or so and it will shine like a new penny.

[rojocorsa]

For a shellac'd RC, thats a pretty nice one. But I'd shit can the shellac on that as well.


After you take off the shellac, a few coats of boiled linseed oil will do that stock some justice.

Nice find.


And did you add the capture screws to the action screws? Or did it come like that?

[Army Chief]

-I bought a 98k from Mitchells last year, very nice rifles. Got a pretty good kick to it though.

Try the small ring G.33/40 if you want to experience a whole new level of "good kick." Same round, and still a true 98 action, but in a much smaller, stripped-down form that carries a lot more like an M1 Carbine than a k98. It's a wonderfully brutal thing to fire.

AC