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I just started this stock stripping tonight. I first tried Kleen-strip and then lacquer thinner, neither did much. But MEK will take the finish off. I found the finish pretty tough and not wanting to come right off, my guess would be that this finish CZ uses is a type of water base. There was some talk on RFC about soaking socks and putting them over the stock to saturate the finish and that would work but I didn’t want to take the chance with using MEK and having the plastic pillars get damaged. So I started by applying the MEK with a brush and then scraping the finish off but I pretty quickly resorted to dipping 0000 steel wool into a bowl of MEK and just rubbing the finish off. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to remove the finish and when I was done I found that the stock I had was made out of a piece of dark straight grain walnut. So when I’m done I will still have a dark walnut stock. Hopefully with a little more depth to the finish. I’m planning on using Tru-oil for that.