Thread: How do you clean your old wood

I do quite a few stocks and I have a cracker on the bench right now. It has had a lot of gun oil used in the past and as such is quite black. Yep, you can use oven cleaner but its nasty stuff and you really have to clean the wood up after using it.

My two main methods are using a hair dryer, heat the wood until the oil starts to come out and then wipe off with a paper towel. For heavy oil patches I also dip the paper towel in acetone and wipe the stock down.A heat gun works the same but it does pay to careful and they run a lot hotter. What I also have is a Shark steamer which had several heads that can be changed and this works very well. Just pull the trigger and instant steam, that really gets the oil and shit off plus gets a lot of the dings out. Its not quick method but the oil does come out.

If the stock is really bad then I also have a bath that I can toss the stock in with either acetone or miricle clean but thats a last resort