Refinish wood stock- polyurethane vs. oil?

[Kyzrsoze]

What a great thread..!

Actually this one is better, and has more detail:

https://www.theoutdoorstrader.com/index.php?posts/1044704

Same guy, but this is his first Marauder build.

 

[Lionheart]

The beauty of an oil finish is that you can repair future use "marks". Poly, not so much.

 

[testdepth]

I repair and refinish furniture from 1800's to early 1900's and have refinished my father's gun stocks. One was a .22 he bought as a kid in upper state NY with his paper route money and the other was a Eddystone military 30-06. I finished both with Boiled Linseed oil hand rubbed and polished. You could also use Tung oil.

No poly though.

 

[killerv]

Formsbys low gloss on everything I do, several coats or until I like where its at. I finish up with one or two coats of minwax wipeon satin poly.

 

[coach482]

Tru oil. Easy to work with, touches up nice. Beautiful finish.

 

[59gagohunt3]

I have always used tung-oil.

 

[jglenn]

only spray on finish close to tung oil


https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-...av-r-custom-oil-gunstock-finish-prod5529.aspx

really nice stuff but for a good piece of wood..... tung oil


oh yeah their tung oil urethane finish is very good too

https://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-...finish-sku209642009-5531-12873.aspx?rrec=true

 

[10-8 Gunworks]

Tung oil usually takes longer to cure than BLO. I'm talking weeks for tung oil vs a day for BLO. For that reason, most of my refinishes are BLO. Oil finishes are super simple to touch up if you ding them, vs a urethane finish also.

 

[Radar363]

Urethane looks like a 1970's porno flick bar top.

 

[Tony2X]

when I see urethane on wood furniture I hear kazoo playing. (another obscure feature of 70's porn flics)

You know porn is ALOT better made these days....why you still lookin at that ol crap?