As long as this thread is started...does anybody have a recommendation for improving an older (15-18 yrs old) Savage stock. This is a run-of the mill 110, purchased at K-mart as a package gun years ago. It appears to be a cheap lacquer spray-on finish. Pressed checkering. It got real wet last year and upon drying out the finish began to fail, peel, flake at the ends of the fore-end, around the tang, etc...
I was gonna strip and refinish but thought perhaps somebody on here has run into this and has a concoction that can go right over the factory finish to re-seal this old stock.
I'm not really looking for pretty, but only a utilitarian seal.