Recent 91/30 from Duffy's Gun Room

psoyring · Apr 15, 2014

iH8DemLibz said:
Model 91 rifle stocks had screws which held the escutcheon/sling plates in place.

The light colored wood splice on the end of the fore stock was installed so the steel nose cap could be re-attached.

It still has faint remnants of the five pointed star on the butt stock. Ivan almost sanded it away.

It should be noted that all pre-WW2 Mosin stocks originally had screwed in sling slots, and that includes the 91/30s as well. In fact, the five point star logo on the stock does mean it was made by Tula, but that logo was not used on the stocks until the 1930s IIRC.

protegeV · May 2, 2014

Ivan be damned, when my mosin comes in I'm contacting the OP about refinishing advice

iH8DemLibz · May 2, 2014

protegeV said:
Ivan be damned, when my mosin comes in I'm contacting the OP about refinishing advice

Nooooooooo.....

Not the advice of the OP.

Hide your Mosins boys and girls, cuzz here comes the Formby's.

Boom Boom · May 2, 2014

Where the "leave it the hell alone" advice goes out the window is when Ivan's shellac job is so bad that the shellac is literally falling off in chunks onto the floor just from handling the rifle. Which, IMO, leaves you with (a minimum of) two basic choices. Leave Ivan's five-cent shellac job that looks like sh*t as is or carefully remove it and lightly oil (leaving the wood's character marks intact).

mossy33oak · May 2, 2014

Boom Boom said:
Where the "leave it the hell alone" advice goes out the window is when Ivan's shellac job is so bad that the shellac is literally falling off in chunks onto the floor just from handling the rifle. Which, IMO, leaves you with (a minimum of) two basic choices. Leave Ivan's five-cent shellac job that looks like sh*t as is or carefully remove it and lightly oil (leaving the wood's character marks intact).

+1 totally agree. My shellac was coming off so bad that my daughter asked why my gun looked like crap. So I followed ihatedemlibz method and applied a nice coat of Danish oil after the formbys and now my 91/30 ex sniper looks like a completely different gun

iH8DemLibz · May 2, 2014

Mossy.

Pics are mandatory in this thread.

Post em up.

Alphabrew · May 2, 2014

iH8DemLibz said:
Mossy.

Pics are mandatory in this thread.

Post em up.

Yes, I have a laminate M44 I might "touch up" with this method. Show me your pics!

Melnic · May 2, 2014

Ok PICS you want This was a spare stock from AIM. Flakes when I handled it. Especially on the handguard I gently decosmo'd it in industrial oven at 130F Then I took amber shellac with DNA mixed I think 1:1, I lightly rubbed it in with a foam brush. This went onto my 1935 Tula hex which was my first 91/30
The buttstock pic you can see the brush strokes kind of like you would see on the rearsenal stocks

iH8DemLibz · May 2, 2014

Where did you get Ivan's DNA?

Are you telling me that the NSA has a data base for that too?

That's a nice color.

reverendbeer · May 3, 2014

Melnic said:
I took amber shellac with DNA mixed I think 1:1,

At first, I read DNA as something drastically different from denatured alcohol and was in awe of your stamina and/or output. :shocking:

mossy33oak · May 3, 2014

ok pics

Here is my 91/30 after the formbys with the first coat of "natural" Danish oil which I thought was too light

Here is the next can up in color the medium......still too light for my taste

Third and final coat. This was the dark walnut. Completely happy with how she turned out. Thanks again ih8demlibz

mossy33oak · May 3, 2014

Sorry the pics were so big. I hate posting pics on message boards

smoothebore · May 3, 2014

This is a Tula M44 I got from J&G. It had a few ugly scrapes and gouges I could live with, but when I cleaned the cosmo gently with mineral spirits, huge patches of shellac came off. I decided it was worse than needing touch-up, so I washed the stock with denatured alcohol. It took off the shellac and color, too. Then I applied two coats of BLO, a coat of alcohol based dye with red, and two more coats of BLO, followed by three coats of Tom's 1/3 mix. I love it. Purists be damned.

smoothebore · May 3, 2014

Forgot the pics.

iH8DemLibz · May 3, 2014

Mossy,

Just when I thought this thread died out, you just had to go and stir the pot again.

Looks Great.

I agree. The natural was too light.

iH8DemLibz · May 3, 2014

smoothebore said:
This is a Tula M44 I got from J&G. It had a few ugly scrapes and gouges I could live with, but when I cleaned the cosmo gently with mineral spirits, huge patches of shellac came off. I decided it was worse than needing touch-up, so I washed the stock with denatured alcohol. It took off the shellac and color, too. Then I applied two coats of BLO, a coat of alcohol based dye with red, and two more coats of BLO, followed by three coats of Tom's 1/3 mix. I love it. Purists be damned.

Holy crap.

It's total anarchy.

Poor Ivan is turning over in his grave right now.

smoothebore · May 3, 2014

Ivan's only skill was a quick dry finish to put it in a crate in the warehouse and save for the next war.

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