Wingmaster restore project

TomisinMd · Oct 12, 2013

Got a 73 wingmaster in a trade on here that my gunsmith says is ok! It's a little rough, but something I'd like to restore.
I'll keep posting step by steps as I go along. I'm stripping the stock now. Gunsmith still has it and I'll be sending the parts to a NY outfit to reblue.

TomisinMd · Oct 12, 2013

last few in this condition

TomisinMd · Oct 12, 2013

stripping the stock. almost done.

sbowers · Oct 13, 2013

What stripper did you use?

hvymax · Oct 13, 2013

Other than some easily stripped paint I don't see a problem.

TomisinMd · Oct 13, 2013

sb - I used zip strip. 2 tries to get through the main body of varnish.

hvy - my forensics shows the paint applied over a bad or botched cold blue job. as soon as the paint started coming off, the nasty temp bluing came off in clumps. cant have that!!

Mtwoodson · Oct 13, 2013

The wood looks pretty nice. Well done

DrunkUncles · Oct 13, 2013

Looking great.. Please keep the pic's coming as your progress continues.

Chris

gaskg · Oct 13, 2013

I love these projects! Please keep the pictures coming

BossmanPJ · Oct 13, 2013

funny... I am restoring one as well. just did the second coat of tung oil on the stock and forearm. I used duracoat to do the steel pieces and it turned out great. if I can ever figure out how to post pictures on here and re-size them I will post my project as well

fivepointstar · Oct 13, 2013

nice job so far!!! 870's a blast to restore, done several myself

iH8DemLibz · Oct 13, 2013

Bubba should never be allowed in the paint department.

Nice recovery on the wood. A product/stain called TransTint will really make that grain pop.

stu929 · Oct 13, 2013

You could probably rust blue it yourself would come out looking very nice.

Overboost44 · Oct 13, 2013

I am restoring a Remington 550 right now and I will get some pictures up in another thread shortly. I read all 40 some pages of this thread last night. If you don't have a plan already to restore the wood, or even if you do, you may want to look at this. You can get a really good idea just by reading the first few pages.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331108&highlight=woodstocks

PJDiesel · Oct 13, 2013

Can I talk you into a different recoil pad? A fitted kickeze would be a whole lot more attractive on there.

TomisinMd · Oct 13, 2013

bossmanpj said:
funny... I am restoring one as well. just did the second coat of tung oil on the stock and forearm. I used duracoat to do the steel pieces and it turned out great. if I can ever figure out how to post pictures on here and re-size them I will post my project as well

Cant wait to see it. You're doing tung oil eh? I'm waffling between tung oil and linseed oil.

FiL says theres not alot of difference, but tung oil will last a hair longer. I don't know any difference really, but he likes to use tung oil on walnut.

TomisinMd · Oct 13, 2013

Overboost44 said:
I am restoring a Remington 550 right now and I will get some pictures up in another thread shortly. I read all 40 some pages of this thread last night. If you don't have a plan already to restore the wood, or even if you do, you may want to look at this. You can get a really good idea just by reading the first few pages.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331108&highlight=woodstocks

Thats a good link. Thanks.
I saw another page where the guy after stripping had taken an xacto knife and masking tape and carefully masked and cutout the checkered sections. This area he then pressed down so that when you sanded you didn't accidentally sand any checkering.
I'm almost to that stage now!

TomisinMd · Oct 13, 2013

PJDiesel said:
Can I talk you into a different recoil pad? A fitted kickeze would be a whole lot more attractive on there.

That ole pad doesnt have much give to it. What's a fitted kickeze? I've done limbsavers on mossbergs, etc, but the black doesnt quite fit this gun.

TomisinMd · Oct 13, 2013

stu929 said:
You could probably rust blue it yourself would come out looking very nice.

Yeah, but I'm anxious to see what this bluing house can do. I saw a couple of Ithicas they did for a friend of mine. Spectacular work.

They are going to mirror the bluing, and matte the crown and top of the vent rib.

PJDiesel · Oct 13, 2013

TomisinMd said:
That ole pad doesnt have much give to it. What's a fitted kickeze? I've done limbsavers on mossbergs, etc, but the black doesnt quite fit this gun.

Limbsaver will will work too. By "fitted" I mean, model specific. Kickeze is a popular model, solid in appearance but very absorbent.

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