sulphur 7 Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Well after a lot of going back and forth over the stock set I finally completed my conversion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
renegadebuck 16 Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Well after a lot of going back and forth over the stock set I finally completed my conversion. NICE!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tsc91 9 Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Looks awesome. I like the furniture. Post some more pics if you get the chance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sulphur 7 Posted February 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 I'll get some more pics out. It was a werid chain of events that lead me to the present stock set I have on there. But I got my black AK sling in from K-VAR today and I couldn't wait to snap a couple of pics and get them posted. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
swells08 128 Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Bad Azz...I love that furniture. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Mark 2,452 Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Very nice build sulphur! Did you finish the furniture yourself or do it come to you that way? Looks awesome! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sulphur 7 Posted February 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Very nice build sulphur! Did you finish the furniture yourself or do it come to you that way? Looks awesome! Nope I refinished it myself. I used Laurel Mountain Forge stain, Cherry. I used a little bit of black dye (Rit Dye) to darken the stain. The cherry is very, very, red. I stripped the stock set I got from a vendor on the net, and slowly started in on staining the set. Sanded it down with a little 420 grit paper, very lighly, and then topped it off with several coats of plain polyurethane (semi gloss). If you want to buy some of the Laurel Mountain Forge stuff I suggest getting the gunsmith set, it's like $38 dollars. I like to refinish AK47 stocks and found this stuff to be pretty good. A buddy of mine suggested I try it and I was very happy. I wanted a red stain but didn't want to do adding rit dye to polyurethane. Not that I don't like that look, just wanted the wood to be stained not the polyurethane. Link: http://www.store.laurelmountainforge.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sulphur 7 Posted February 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 I took a couple of close up shots... Hate the glare from the camera when the flash goes off!!! Anyways.. if anyone is interested PM me and I'll give you the 411 on what I did... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
son of rooster 6 Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 very, very nice!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dobravery 49 Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Great job! Since you like to refinish stock sets, could I pick your brain? Do you know if AK laminate is stainable? I wasn't sure if the stock you pictured here was laminate or not. Once again, beautiful work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sulphur 7 Posted February 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Great job! Since you like to refinish stock sets, could I pick your brain? Do you know if AK laminate is stainable? I wasn't sure if the stock you pictured here was laminate or not. Once again, beautiful work. This is my understanding, and please if anyone wants to correct me, by all means go ahead, that's the only way to learn. I believe you can stain a laminate stock. I have done so many times. The thing you really have to watch is stripping an old or already stained or poly covered stock. The laminate of course is glued together (lack of a better description) but some stripping can weaken the glue holding the layers of wood together (not good). The stock on my .223 above is a laminated stock that I stripped with a water base stripper. As a matter of fact I am wating on a PSL handguard set from Matt at Ironwood Designs. That set is a birch laminate that I will stain to match the laminated stock I already got from him. Whatever you have in mind I would make this suggestion. There are plenty of old Romy stock sets or buttstocks out there, buy one, don't spend a lot of money. Clean it up, strip it, sand it, whatever you think needs to be done to it and then use that stock set to get an idea of what you want to do. As a matter of fact I think I am sitting on 8 to 10 buttstocks and a few sets I bought so I didn't mess up the one I wanted to use on my gun. Hope this helps and if you want just PM me and I am more than willing to share details. Sulphur Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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