Continued:
When all your metal parts are clean, you can wipe the Johnson's paste wax off of the stock and it looks great, except sometimes you end up with a little in the checkering. I try like heck to keep it out of there, because I don't like having to clean it out of the crevasses. However, I have a small stiff brush that works great for this:
Here it is after brushing out the checkering: