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I apologize for resurrecting this but I couldn't find anything about it in the search function: Has anyone succeeded in removing the 1/2" or so of lucite the RBL stock is encased in? I recall some gentleman a while back saying strips of the finish peeled off when he removed some tape he'd put on the stock aand he was going to try to take all of the finish off that way. That sounds like the anwer to me. I really don't like that shiny finish, but neither do I like the idea of trying to sand it off. Ideas, please? Thanks, Jerry
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So many guns, so little time!
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Jerry,
If you must take off the finish and the tape method doesn't work, I'd use a stripper. Don't clean the stripper off with water, use acetone, lacquer thinner or similar.
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Chuck is correct, although you could also use alcohol.
My RBL is still somewhere in the pipeline, and I have never seen one in the flesh, but it seems to me that if you are going to refinish the wood, you might as well take the opportunity to recut the laser checkering. Thoughts?
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Refinishing the stock on a RBL, ALREADY?? WOOOO-EEEEEEE!!
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Chuck is right!! Please use a commercial stripper. Most will at least soften the finish on a latterday Browning. Repeated applications alternating with some armstrong encouragement with laquer thiner and fine or medium Scotchbrite should remove most of it. Before going that desperate route, I think I'd consider cutting it down to dull satin with pumice and a lubricant (water, linseed, veg. oil) on a solid backed felt rubber and then compounding it back up to an acceptable sheen and transparency. Even a bit of buffing with the old 4/0 might be preferable to the wrecking ball approach you're contemplating. But what do I know? Jimmy, be nice; gun's a classic in the making.
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How about all you refinishers ordering your RBL's unfinished?This would help Mr Galazan's backlog, and I bet he would only charge you about $500 extra.
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Yeh, it's not too late to plant a grafted walnut whip and hunt around for some bog ore either but some concessions do have to be made to the fact that we're here a short time and a long time gone. Maybe a few trips afield and a a bit of chaffing on wool or canvas would create some discontinuities which would please.
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To cut the sheen from the stock if you don't like it, use automotive polishing compound, just mask the metal.
David
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