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navylawdog.Start with sanding the stock smooth, without rounding any edges. Brush or blowoff the dust and wet the stock to raise the grain. Let dry well and sand the wiskers off with a sharp new piece of 400 paper.Wet the stock again and do the same thing let dry and sand. Blow off all sanding dust. Get a role of 3/4" scotch tape and wrap it around your four finger with the sticky side out. Wrap until you have a sticky sleeve abvout 2" wide and go over the whole stock with the sticky sticky side.This will remove any embedded dust particles. You are now ready to applyBirchwood Casey True oil with a bit of turpentine added to slightly thin it down for the first and second coat.Each coat is sanded down to the wood and the dust removed with the tacky scotch tape. Use the oil sparingly with no visible build up. Do this until all pores are filledand the grain starts to look good. The number of coats depends on the wood.Apply the finish with a lint free cloth made into a ball, apply the oil to the cloth balland rub in on the stock with out build up. Let each coat dry good.You will knowwhen the stock is finished,always sand in between coats and use the tacky tapeafter before a new coat goes on. Ten thin coats should do it.This will make a finish that is in the wood and is easy to touch up when damaged.You can do the same with Linspeed oil.
Navylawdog.Your stock looks very nice, if yo want to reduce the shine a bit you can rub it down with pumice-stone and olive oil. Put some olive oil on a cotton pad and tipthe pad into the pumice powder and rub down the stock, it only removes the clare.The best english oil finished stocks are done in this manner. You might get pumice stone from Brownell?
