Hey Corbin.... that is interesting as I never heard of anyone putting wax over just stain. It is still not bare wood if you used the Minwax oil based stain. It is linseed oil with a very small volume of pigment. Linseed oil is a finish used quite frequently on guns and wood on tools which get used a lot. They use it to restore the old military rifles.
It certainly is not the lacquer they put on a factory stock. You did a very interesting experiment. How has it held up?
Sounds like a heck of a lot of work to get the paint and finish off. Did you try using a paint/finish stripper first? I used to use the Kleen Strip aircraft grade paint remover and that stuff cut ANYTHING and fast. They outlawed it because some bozo fell asleep in a car with the windows up then kicked a can of it over and died from fumes. So then 250 million people can't use it anymore. Now they changed the formula and it sucks. I think little kids can drink it now. Geeeezzzz
It certainly is not the lacquer they put on a factory stock. You did a very interesting experiment. How has it held up?
Sounds like a heck of a lot of work to get the paint and finish off. Did you try using a paint/finish stripper first? I used to use the Kleen Strip aircraft grade paint remover and that stuff cut ANYTHING and fast. They outlawed it because some bozo fell asleep in a car with the windows up then kicked a can of it over and died from fumes. So then 250 million people can't use it anymore. Now they changed the formula and it sucks. I think little kids can drink it now. Geeeezzzz
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