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Old 01-15-2016, 04:55 PM
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Blackpowdersmoke
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Have you ever wrapped a stock that you were in no hurry for in linseed oil soaked cloth and just put it away? Maybe just soaking the cloth at intervals to maintain that oil soak? Seems I read somewhere that old time rifle builders would do that with a chunk of maple or walnut so that the wood was impregnated with the oil prior to their shaping it.

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