I've been wondering of late about the varnish on the older models. Reading about Winchester 54's and pre-64 70's of late, both Rule and Bichrest convey that what I thought was varnish on them was in fact lacquer, which makes a lot of sense from a manufacturing standpoint. Lacquer dries very quickly and they were finishing those stocks in a couple days. Would that Savage was doing the same thing? I don't think they had conversion varnishes back then which speed finishing time dramatically, or did they? Gotta do some research.
