Part 2. Putting the finish on a hand made black walnut gunstock. 

Yes! Guns and airplanes go quite well together! Bravo!

Simply beautiful and I totally understand the feeling of finishing that beautiful wood. Thank you.

Such beautiful work and great to see another dimension of Mark! Airplanes and firearms do seem to attract a lot of the same folks. But hey Mark all through both videos I was looking forward to seeing you fire the rifle at the end. Great work though!

That is beautiful work sir! Well done and great vid. 👌

From birch wood to black walnut is a big up take,nice piece of work.

What a great job my friend cut down a black walnut tree last week and I saved a nice long piece and told him I'm going to make stock out of that lo and behold today I see this video I will probably have to watch it again I have to cut down the wood closer to size and then let it dry some before I start thank you

you need to go into a frame of mind in order to do this work. A frame of mind that many can not achieve, its just poetry. Pure poetry

Beautiful piece of wood. Great work!

Nicely done, Sir. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for showing me the kind of finish that I was looking for, God bless.

You Sir, did spectacular work on this!

Beautiful work!

Outstanding !! congrats on a build and gorgeous finish to the stock.

this is such a relaxing video to watch I really love the look of that wood

Wow. My 7x57 needs a new stock. Thanks for the advice in these two videos. You've inspired me to make my own. Thank you!

Great Video. Appreciate you taking the time to create this.

Beauty !

Beautifully done !

Beautiful work Mark, the stock is absolutely gorgeous and your presentation in both videos is very educational and pleasant to watch ... thanks for sharing!

Loved it! Watched both the videos in a go and subbed. Love the finish and it’s so interesting to watch you work on the stock. Love and respect, sir!

Awesome job. Very inspired. Thanks for the video.

Beautiful! Looking forward to applying these techniques to my projects.

Wow, that is one really beautiful riflestock my friend...a labor of love thats for sure and it shows....KEEP ON ROCKING IT!..Skywagon University.....

I just refinished a walnut stock on an almost 40 year old knight muzzle loader with true oil. Used almost the same process once i completely stripped it to bare wood. Only difference was i did 3 coats of pure tung oil first sanding in between to fill the pores. And then 3 coats of tru oil. Looks flawless now. Hard to believe they were hiding such a gorgeous piece of wood under all that old ugly orange finish.

Absolutely beautiful!

Priceless 👍

Come up a treat mate, lovely job😊

Excellent Craftsmanship, mate.

Beautiful

Amazing! Very Impressive!

Looks really good!

Gorgeous!

Absolutely beautiful wonderful job enjoyed both videos! So amazing seeing a chunk of wood turning into someone so beautiful. Bravo buddy

Masterpiece!

Exelent work mate, true art

Bravo sir.

Note to self; stop complaining when I buy a 500USD extra fancy finished walnut M1 stock.

Beautiful.

I have made 3 guns stocks and used same oil and filler

Excellent work.👍👍👍🇺🇸🙏🏽😎✌🏻

Amazing... thanks for sharing this video ❤️

Watched both videos tonight. Thank you very much for sharing your process. Not only how you do it but also why you do what do. I will receive two vintage Sako rifles shortly with beautiful actions but poor looking stocks, so I will definitely try to make a couple of stocks that make the actions justice. Cheers from Sweden.

Wow excellent job

Wow awesome job…! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Would love to see more! You could make a entire channel just on making bespoke gunstocks. Cheers, :D

Beautiful work! I’m a sucker for rim fire riffles and now that I’ve seen this I’ll be on the hunt for actions that need new stocks. You have the skills we would like to see transplanting into our great state of Texas if you ever decide to join the exodus!

Oh man. I didn’t realize you were a gun guy too. I discovered your airplane videos recently. I’m not a pilot yet but have been dreaming about it my whole life. I want a taildragger. But I am a gun owner big time with a brand new Winchester Model 70 Maple Super grade .270 win. And now I see you sanding a beautiful black walnut stock. I like your channel even more now. I don’t live far away. I’m in Ukiah, CA towards the coast. If I finally can afford to go ahead with my dream of flying I might come visit you. I grew up in a walnut orchard by the way. My parents have owned it here in Mendocino County since 1971. We rip out old black walnut root balls all the time and sell them. From the dying trees.

Super nice effort, you are an accomplished craftsman. Chuck

Excellent, thank you sir

Very nice result! I also like your little anecdote of how you started making gun stocks. I made my first aged 6 or 7: a boy in my street had gotten an expensive toy gun, that looked very real, since it was made of beechwood and blued metal. I asked my parents if I could have one for my birthday but no, it was far too expensive. So I moved to copying it and did a pretty good job, admittedly with some assistance. Soon I made toy guns for the whole neighborhood, at one time even a Vickers machinegun on a tripod. There I stopped, frustrated at not getting the water mantle right with actual flutes. Good memories though🙂.

Beautiful! I watched both videos, and must say ypu showef a great desl of skill and artistry. There is mothing better than the combination of blued steel and nicely figured walnut. I grew up with guns and airplanes (first flight with my Dad at 4 years old, nuys about flying evet since), and they are still my favorite toys. Glad to see a fellow enthusiast of both. BTW, I refrr to my guns as my art collection, your stocks certainly qualify for that description. Keep the great airplane videos coming, and some more firearm content woulf also be appreciated.

Very impressive.

Nice Volt!

Beautiful stock and great video. Love the story of how you started. Have you ever done any checkering on your stocks? With your skills and attention to detail I’m sure it would be over the top. Thx for sharing the video!

other guides I've read used the tru-oil as the filler for the sanding step as well. one also recommended adding spirits to the oil to thin it down.

"Keep going till you see no errors at all." That is about the point where I accidently bump it on something with a hard sharp corner in my garage! Haha

Beautiful work. Very attractive grain. Great job!

Savage Mark II Super Grade XD

As a boy, I stripped and refinished the stock of a .22 single shot that my uncle gave to me - that my grandmother had bought him as a boy of about 12 or so. It looked like it had been dipped in varnish stain and hung out to dry, so I just thought I'd give refinishing a try, having read some article somewhere. I stripped, reshaped, and sanded, sanded, sanded. I don't know what kind of wood it was - perhaps some generic fruitwood about as light as maple - so the end result was not the dark, walnutty color it started as. I "whiskered" the stock - sanded smooth, then dampened to raise the grain, and sanded again with progressively finer sandpaper. I must have sanded and resanded 25 times before it was dead smooth. As I recall, the final finish was with pumice - probably unnecessarily picky, but it was what they used in the article, so I followed suit. It certainly was smooth as glass when I finished. I still have it, some 60+ years later, and it's still as smooth as the day I finished it. This video sure brought back memories of that first experiment in woodworking. Beautiful job you did, and very informative video.

Very beautiful! Well done 🙂

Excellent work sir! Tru-Oil is my favorite by far, mostly because it's beautiful, durable, and harder to scratch than other finishes. I recently discovered something even more scratch resistant: Gorilla glue original foaming urethane glue. Since it foams, the wood must be sealed well, just as you do in the video. For the final coat, rub on very small amounts of Gorilla glue with fingertips, but it has to be vanishingly thin or it will foam. I use it on knife handles and other small items than need to be scratch proof. It works on metal and some plastics too! Just know that using it on large items like rifle stocks are probably not practical, but I think if anyone could make it work, you could!

Mark I was hoping you would do a few clips on your other passion. These were great! Now lets show some whales😊 See you on the 4th. I will bring over a couple guitar’s

I’ll let you in on a little secret when it comes to precision inletting. You may already know this trick, but here goes. Use an oil lamp and use the flame to smoke the metal parts. The layer of smoke is only a couple of thousandths of an inch thick at best. Not as messy as the grease. Just found your video and saw that you like flying as well. Guns and flying, say no more to get a sub from me. I look forward to your other videos!

And now you're making videos about one of my OTHER favorite things?!?!! If you start making videos about 3d printing bagpipes like I do for my business, I'm moving to the People's Republic of California, and I work for you!

If you listen to the walnut really carefully it's saying, " Now lets go get those nutty squirrels".

you should do more love the video

bravo well done . although I prefer a traditional linseed oil finish as it stands the test of time

No checkering?? I find that checkering allows a much better handhold of the rifle. A very good video without a pattern maker.

It looks wonderful, You should glass bed the action in it.

Excellent wood finishing technique regardless of the object, it could be furniture or any fine joinery. Again its clear your personal interest to understand why a certain step is required and what is really going in to the woodgrain as the finishing progresses gives such a result, similar to understanding the titbits of information about a Mooney or Cessna, well done.

Quit Beautiful, you are talented, maybe you should go into the custom business I'd love to have an identical stock for a .270 remington 721 bravo.

You cant put a price on the work you do… masterful.

Wish I could afford to do that but my labor rates are just too high. 😁

I was wondering if there was a type of black walnut without the small holes in the grain. I wanted to make a stock with black walnut but i knew that there is small holes in the grain of wood for black walnut so i thought that black walnut would not be good for stocks. Love the video❤

Very

Nice job on that stock. She’s a beauty. Did you bed the action? If so, what technique and material did you use to do that? Yes, I realize it’s just a .22. Just figured if you got 10 stocks under your belt you’d have a preference and reasoning. I’m getting ready to try my 1st stock and watching you on this video helps. Thanks

Beautiful work. Can this also apply to colored laminate stocks. I have a Browning camo laminate stock from.the late eighties that I want to refinish. However I am worried about screwing up the tan, green and brown colors. The Birchwood Casey sealer is amber yellowish. Is there a clear sealer I can use or am I worrying to much about the yellowish color of the sealer. Also what is a good product to use once sealed? Again Birchwood Casey's truoil is yellowish. I just tried the sealer on a stock from an old shotgun and at step one. Its stained walnut and my next step is the steel wool and subsequent coats of the sealer. I don't have to worry of yellowish sealers with the walnut color though

Very beautiful black walnut stock well done very nice did you make the stock or did you buy it partially done or was that the original gun stock

Stunning. How many hours do you have into one? I’m sure you could draw a pretty penny for one but the amount of time you have into one might equate to minimum wage.

Can u take a video of your remingtom 7000, i am going to make that kind of stock, and it will help me alot to see how it looks, especially pistol grip part, i want to know where it should be round and what shape should i make flat ... if u will have time to make video of your remington 700, just want to see details of that stock, i liked it when i saw in the begging of this video...

Amazing stuff, Where did you find that butt pad? I want the same one for the stock I plan to make for my ruger

Not a fan of Birchwood Casey finish, very very expensive for such small quantities. That said, very hard to argue with the results. You did good. Very good. You very close to the home office of Daly's. They make a product called Benite that hardens the wood. It does change the colour (e.g. raw mahogany turns almost a deep purple - very nice if that is a result you want/like). This can very handy for hunting rifles as it makes the wood very tough (from my limited experience, walnut is not all that hard). Daly's also makes grain fillers (neutral and stained). Good stuff - but hard for me to source..... :(

I have an old Remington modal 34 with a stock that is in poor shape, I’d love to remake the stock just like you did here. The only catch is that I have never worked with wood before.. What basic woodworking skills would you recommend acquiring before taking on such a task?

If I were to try and make a stock for a 7mm rifle. And I’m wanting to make sure it shoots accurate up to lengthy distance’s (such as 600-800 yards) how would I make sure I didn’t mess something up to where it wouldn’t fire correctly?

Some claim particles of steel wool will inbed into the pores and you can see them through the finish. They prefer to use brass wool.

Il manque que le quadrillage Mais sinon super 👍

I evidently did something wrong. Brand new bottle of sealer and waited 24 hours to sand down the high spots of the first coat and it was gumming up. Ended up having to rub it all off with the steel wool

That’s really nice how much would it cost to buy a piece like that of you

There is another video on RU-vid that you would appreciate called the gunsmith of williamsberg, do check it out! 😊

If glass bedding I assume do that first?

Where did you buy the blanks from ? I want to do either a maple or walnut for my marlin 25n .22lr

Beautiful piece of wood. Take the butt plate off seal the wood.

Super Video... Mesmerising Skill sir.. I am just starting out on a similar journey but with an old springer air rifle and my question is this, Should I ensure that the barrel mechanism does not touch the barrel channel as you mentioned? Or is it different for Air Rifles? Kind regards, Dave.

Excellent work. Have you ever sealed the pores with CA glue?

What is the ebony material? Is it wood as well?

I presume that you would do the checkering after the finish is completed?

Qual o nome do óleo usado no acabamento?

It does not bother you skin using bare hands to apply those finishes?

How much would it cost to do my Walnut stock

In plain Swedish; Men vad fan du har ju inte porfyllt! In English that would approximately translate to: Well done with the wood work, but you failed miserably with the finish.