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Cut the skin layer outta the checkering
Let both peices dry another day.
Do 1st reduction sanding down of finish.
Hit areas of light grain highlights a little more than others on both peices.
Leave checkering like it is.
Give both a mineral spirits bath.
Tape up checkering
Let dry another day.
Start wiping cloth applications thursday.
Remove tape from checkering about 2 hrs after that.
Try to advoid seepage and migration under tape.
Hit checkering outline with fine brush after drying for 2 days.

Repeat process as needed with lighter sanding progressively for final coat progression.
Probably take wiping coat stage,s of 2 to 3 each session.
Should be around 9 to 11 total from those stage,s and be done on the final 2
Then allow to dry and harden/shrinkage for about 2 weeks at least, indoors and outdoors for VO2 drying of chems....
Finish still takes 2 or 3 months to really harden up and cure , but the gun will be able to be used as normal.
This is the intial 7 penetration coats and 3 additional coats for surface skin coats to intially work with in the 1st most important sanding stage.

Mocked it up.
Still the intial pentrating coats.
Light outside is crappy.
Buttstock has alot highlights not in the pic
Sand em down tommorow.
That will also help out with a little more attention to light grain in the buttstock
Gotta do something other than watch riot schitt..


Aint found a pistol grip that blends in my eye with the contouring.
Just finish it like this for the time being.
Easy to fit one when I find one eventually.
I will know the right one when I see it.
Maybe some fugging gun shows might open back up.
Fugging chinese
Fugging up everyfugging...

I knew they had to fit somebody. Just never met anyone.

Still a mossberg 930.
It runs
It kills

At least all the machine cut sharp angles are gone from this before pic.

My best attempt at polishing my "Turd".
Which is not done by far...

LOL!!!

Looks pretty damned good to me man nice work!

I am also a Mossberg fan; don’t consider em turds at all. The one I have is a 500 that’s been running flawlessly since I bought it with paper route money in 8th grade.

I have owned alot of mossbergs over the years.

Bunch of em.
835,s
935,s
930,s
500,s


835 turkey gun and this 930 right now.
They both kill.

Once outshot 3 other guys with a 835 turkey gun on a dove feild 7 or 8 yrs ago.
Rifle sights and .670 rhino choke, limbsaver pad and weight in the stock.
Same components I got on the 835 turkeyI got now.


Lol!!

One guy was really bent outta shape about it.
He had a Browning Auto 5 Humpback
His grampy,s gun
Bragging it up.
Useless peice of wood and steel in his hands.
Specially with his dullard reflexes getting on birds.
And he knew it....
LOL!!!

She’s a beaut. I love my 930 because it shoots where I look. Mine is the field walnut, very little figure in the wood. But my go to bird gun.

Per my request via earlier text message

Need more inclusion of Texas Steer boots in the shot.

Thanks for reshooting the pic.


* for ADD 😃👍

TFF!

Gotta get jiggy with it in an hour or 2.
1st reduction sanding
Seletive grain enhancing per sanding.
Mostly the buttstock, forearm just around birdseyes spots to enhance.

Cleaning w mineral spirits
Drying
2 wiping coat applications 7 or 8 hrs later
Dry couple days

Repeat till done to my eye.

Reduction done
Mineral spirits cleaned.
Needs checkering taped up
Hangers need ta be rigged up

Start fininshing coats 2 to 3 applied then let dry 2 or 3 days.
Reductions will be way easier and less intensive between these
Probably about 5 to 6 coats totsl
Probably be 2 more very light sandings at 800 grit.
Strive for 1 or 2 final coats to complete
Its a build up , sand down process.
My eyes will know when it done.

Selective grain highlight on butt stock look dramatic.
Truoil will blend and darken it all once again.
But the grain highlighted will contrast more than if I had left it alone.

1st 2 " finish" coats.
Taped up outside borders of checkering.
Hit em with a toothbrush ( firm) slurry of water and mothers mag and aluminum polish ( what I had on hand) to give the checkering a satin look.
Cleaned up with mineral spirits.
Need ta run ta wally world get a soft tooth brush and repeat process on checkering.
Clean again

Tape up checkering completely
Sand finish down with 600 and 800.
Remove tape
Clean with mineral spirits
Retape checkering
2 more finish coats
See what it looks like when dry.
Might be done after that.
Might need repeat and 1 or 2 more finish coats.

Light in pic makes it look like schitt.........

Its a progressive process , the eye will know when its done.
Might be excessive to some doing the entire drawn out process.
But the OCD way I do it is on me.
LOL!!!

Looks great. Artist at work here!

Noooo....
Just OCD...
lol!!!

Trimmed down one of the wifes make up brushes.
Dont feel like running to wally world.
This should get down lower into the valleys of the checkering better and have more bristles in contact.

All that, for a mossberg?

Yep!!!
Making a " turd" shine!!!
LOL!!!
The 930 is a horrible shotgun.
No one uses em for anything...


We need ta get out and do some 5 stand in july and august.
Fugg it man, bring out your wheeler to the field if ya can swing it with the bionic knee by then.
Or either the field on 21.
21 probably be a better option after last years fiasco on the twra field, aint nothing gonna change no matter the 3 simple things I told em they could do safety and range fan wise to enact.

They wont do a thing..
Would be interesting to go to also.
Just ta see the zippy,s face,s again.
Dale is a weasel.
Dont even remember the other dipschit wardens name.

When ya overlook a standard it becomes the standard.

Twra can do that with a federal migratory bird.............
Might be a chance to send a observation email to U.S. fish and wildlife types.....
I always make friends wherever I go.

Goodwill ambassador!!!!

Might have ta hit the checkering one more time.
Little bit more shined down on this round.
Tape up checkering again.
Do a 600 800 sanding on finish tommorow
Go thru cleaning process, tape up checkering again and apply 2 wiping finish coats.

See what it looks like after able to handle dry time.
2 to 3 days drying time.
Repeat finish coat process if needed, which it probably will be.
Right now it is around 14 or 15 coats total to include penetration and intial build up coats.

20 21ish probably gonna be the most I'm gonna go .
Start hitting a point of diminishing returns bringing out grain features eventually.
Now in the process it is still gaining grain highlights.
Kinda a add 3 back 2 process doing the entire deal after penetration coats are applied and dried.

800 sanding done, need to tape up checkering and get 2 wiping finish coats on it.
This will be 16 or 17 coats
See if process needs ta repeat.
Probably have to...

On track for a 15 ish june complete then 2 week drying time inside and outside in heat.

Looks good.

I've bent over backwards trying to do a decent job of refinishing gun stocks and I just don't have the touch.