What's great for a furniture finish is not necessarily so for a gun stock that may well be exposed to a lot of inclement weather in the course of its life.

Finishes like Waterlox, Truoil, etc. have been bandied about on this forum for longer than I can remember, and have been refuted by many knowledgeable people. It's a case where beauty is less than skin deep.

As far as steel wool is concerned, that old rhubarb has been laid to rest too.

Nobody, it would seem, bothers to do even a soup�on of research of past posts before launching one version or another of the same old tired question. I don't understand that.


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