How Shiny is TOO shiny on a gunstock ?

Joe, that's purty. Nothing wrong with a shiny target or competition rifle. This does redeem you for the charred stock, now I got one too send ya brother

Thanks a beautiful stock, I no nowadays the trend is more towards satin oil rubbed finishes but me being older and taking cabinet making all 4 years in school it can't be to shinny. Every gun I buy that has a wood stock im rubbing or spraying something on to try and make it shinny. If you don't like it hit it with some 800 grit and then a coat of satin finish, that will bring it down.

Joe, you're too young to remember the early 50s, I'm sure. But it was about that time that Weatherby and a couple of other specialty gun makers offered what was called a bowling ball finish. It was not only shiny, it was tough. Nice to look at, nice to hold, but the reflection was a giveaway to the game.

You keep sanding on the stock you're gonna end up with a toothpick.

Love the shiny job Joe,,, I know folks don't like shiny when hunting and I am for one of them. However, when at a field target competition and other events, the oooohs and awwwws are a welcome compliment...good job Joe. Oh yeah, this first attempt at a field target stock, begged to be shiny. And yes I use it often, A scratch,,ahhh just 0000 steel wool and a touch up coat and you're good as new!

Something I would like to touch on, Joe has a beautiful stock, ... As far as wood stocks go everything follows the same conviction as firearm stock for air rifles. As a wood turner I have seen and worked with wood that wouldn't normally be considered acceptable for use in a stock because of the grain and or hardness.
But again that is because the stock absorbs the recoil of the fire arm. PCP and even the Springer doesn't have the recoil of a firearm.
A person sure could have a uniquely designed and eyepopping beautiful stock by stepping away from normal conviction and finding some burl or other wood grain oddities to make a stock from

I would commit a few heinous acts for a spalted maple or pear gunstock!

"bouddha"I would commit a few heinous acts for a spalted maple or pear gunstock!

Now we are talking my kind of language!!!!!

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That's not wood..it's a granite stock..lol NICE

Joe as one folicly challenged old man to another: When the shine is greater than your head then you have gone TOO far!

Thurmond

"Willie14228"

"bouddha"I would commit a few heinous acts for a spalted maple or pear gunstock!

Now we are talking my kind of language!!!!!

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I have some apricot trees that died I have been saving. The smaller stuff makes the BEST pulled pork but the bigger stuff (trunks 2' diameter) could be used for a number of stock blanks. Here I go with the chainsaw again!

Thurmond