Thread will be a work in progress type of thing.
Spent about 3 hours today on the forearm
Still lot to do on the forearm.
It has 11 birdseyes in it .
Which should pop pretty good when refinished.
Opened up the checkering outline .
Gotta hit the outline with some 120 grit get out cutting stuff.
Define the valley and angles little better

Strip it after I get jiggy on the butt stock tommorow

Object of the project is refinish the stock and contour smooth all these sharp factory angles
This is what the shotgun looked like before the start of the project.

No structural/ bracing/ mating surface alterations done just getting rid of all these 90° angles appearance wise

Checkering outline needs some additional sanding out like I mentioned earlier.

Aint gonna happen today.
Did enough for 1 day.

Well, get jiggy with it, brotha:



And get your toes out the pic.

Sitka lurks

Clean up the gas vents on the forearm.
They are always done rather roughly and sharply on most factory guns.
Smooth is better. IMO.

You need to pM Redneck on how to disassemble that, only a degreed gunsmith should attempt such a task.

Just sayin

I ain’t shot a moss berg 930 in over 30 yrs......

Last time I shot one was with paper shells

Ohh that smell, ....brings back memories

When I retired from Johns-Manville in ‘59, they gave me a pocket watch.

Mossberg was still making watches then.

The "before" pic looks pretty dang good.

I dont give a fugg what he has to say about it or my technique.
Dont even start man.
I'm a general forumite...

Post up schit on here some might enjoy looking at.

Pics or it never happened... firm beleiver......
Co founder with you. LOL!!!
Aint seen a one of his since I been a member on here.
LMFAO!!!
I'm being nice and it's hard at times.


All I have ever asked was for a friend to pay for the stuff needed to do the project.
Turn down offers for paid work.
Wont do it,,, specially not face to face.
I'm uncomfortable with it.
Dont wanta be known for schitt work via shipping.


And I sure as fugg wont let a project go back with my OCD issue I have.
I have restarted projects from scratch cause of OCD.
Lol!! You know that.

Do you make wood ash trays?


Don’t see them much anymore.

Dave what are you smoking man???
Lol!!!
These are relatively new guns like 10 or 12 years on the market. IIRC.

sold my winchester 1400 mkII to have more modern design gun to disassembly and clean and parts availability.

I have owned alot of 835,s
2 935,s
1 mossberg 500 rifled slug a loooong time ago.
This is my second 930
The black walnut has alot of character waiting to come out
Got a good deal on it at a pawnshop.

I'm a mossberg fan.
They work for me.

Nooooo...
LOL!!!

You ever seen an ashtray get thrown at a plasma tv?

That factory finish was bad man.
That pic is deceiving.
Runs and glaciering sagging on it in places.
I dont know how it got by any QC if they had any at all.

I dont have a single walnut stocked gun with a factory finish on it.

Wiping cloth tru oil 50 50 cut with mineral spirits finish will go on this.
After about 6 penetrating 25 tru oil 75 mineral spirits coats get in it.

Be done with a grain finish like others I have done.
When my eye says it's right is when I will know it's done
Then about a month of indoor and outdoor curing/ hardening.

I cant help it.


At least its work boots and not my bowling shoes ( per everyone on here)

LOL!!!

Was them shoes from when you worked at Sears?

LOL

This was some fugging tedious work for about 5 hours back in january when I got the gun.
Shot a box of shells thru it prior too and afterwards.
Big difference in felt recoil.

Fugging mossberg injection molded pad.
Look like they got recoil mitagation in em
Fugging solid 1/2 to 5/8 ths inch wide band column of hard non giving rubber down the middle of em.
Vice grip needle nose, angled toe nail trimmer, dremel with cut off disc, drill bits, rube goldberg rigged up angle exacto blade.

Fugg.....
But it works good now.

All the compression holes are cleaned up , just a bad angle to see em.
Still got some tweaking to do on it.
Bout 30 45 mins of work.

Thats it so far......
Update with stuff as it happens over the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Could have been worse, clown shoes from running around scaring kiddies?

12 guage?

Hahaha!!!!!

When I was the pizza cook at Cici,s actually.


I might go eat dinner their tonight.
Start a thread for the haters.

LOL!!!

Yep.

Just a dove and tree rat gun.

Get used maybe 15 25 days outta the year.

Project ta do till end of june timeline.

Thats what army boots and automatic wpns were for.

Travel to new lands and schitt.

Pics and a story in a min.

Lol!!!

Pics of cinnamon rolls or it never happened.

My bad.....

All them years smelling knaug-a-Hyde at the factory messes up my mind.

On the really real.... i shoot a benelli m2. Had it back before LH semis were cool. Trendsetter and what not.

This brought me to tears. LMFAO

JFC!!! LOL

These are better .

"Advanced Composite" Iraqi kid wrist rockets.
Bout a 20 yd range and the little coksukka,s aim below your body armor.
100% concealable until you walk past the little fugga,s
Nothing like a ball bearing on the back of your thigh or dead on your azz.


That,s alright kid.

5.56 or 7.62 took care of some d bag male in your family.


LOL!!!

i worked at the Naugahyde plant before my Uncle Louie got me on at Johns Manville. Up there on route 27 in Narragansett.

I’m dying over here. Too funny.

Slumlord has a Berreta 390.
He acts all snooty and schit on the dove feild too.


LOL!!!

Cats are fugging azzholes......
LOL!!!

in Nam, we had some boys firing slingshots at us, we wrestled one em down and packed his crack with about 3 lbs of milspec GMD grease and sent him on his way.

Vacation?

🤣😂😎

Watching this thread like a YouTube video.

I’m ADD like you Renn, so get this thing done in 3 days or I’ll forget you bought a Mossberg.

Laffin 😎

Text me when your project gets to the CiCi’s part.

Ren50 - slumdog don’t make you tote that gun to field for him? Thatd be real snooty. 😂.
I could see slum as the thirston Howell type.

Slummy needs one of Beavers famous ascots to pull off a Thurston Howell look. 😎

Dude, them are cool!

reminds me of the ones we made out of doubled up bent over wire hangers, paper route rubber bands, and leather pouches. used to have slingshot wars with the neighborhood bros. Turned on their side, a picnic table makes a good hide. Stopped rocks, peach pits, and the occasional "steelie" marble.

Fück yea! I get his address for you.

And that's why "I" kill sharks.

eatin' up all the dang pizza

fuggabunchasharksfugginupeveryfugginthing

That’s a purdy gun Ren. I just had a not so good experience with a mossberg pump that I had scrimped and saved for as a kid. I ended up trading it for an 870 cause the guy wanted a gun that shot 3" shells.

Ascot sounds kinda gay..

Unless they come in the Mossy Oak Dove Field Ultra Real Life shadow camo.

LMFAO!!!!

True Sage out here in the West.

That'd likely get your nut off right quicklike.

Y’all dress up like a tumble weed ball?

Prolly works better for short fat dudes.

Well, around certain parts using alfalfa camo might work, juniper in others, sagebrush most everywhere, lava rock on the rim-rock areas, and only occasionally tumbleweed.

Black cow camo would work well too. Seems to be a lot f them around.

Need meaning to " back dat azz up"

Lol!!!

IIRC
Got em down to 200 or 225 Otd.


Pawn shop out in Dover.
They had a 24 inch matte in black walnut also.
Probably some scumbillie got a dead reletives guns.
Let em go for partaaaay money.
Just seemed funny 2 930,s with walnut in the place.
Speculation on my part mostly.....

Was in their late deer season coming back from stewart state forrest.
Went back 2 or 3 weeks later.

Let me trade out forearms.
At 1st they was reluctant, but the girl turned a " blind eye".
Got the one with a buncha birdseyes in it.

Seems that would stick out.

No schitt....

LOL!!!

Capt Brody and Hooper would have shown that shark who’s boss.

Most of them burned up in the ensuing house fires.

That’s when it was kept on the night stand. Right next to the Old Crow whiskey. 😂

Great project I like it

Once won a casual skeet shooting contest with a beat up borrowed Mossberg pump 12 ga.

Couldn't miss with that thing, fit my eye perfectly. Dude wouldn't sell it.

I look forward to seeing it when done, Renegadefitty.

He's got a stock needs done.

Not a Purdy. Mossberg. World of difference, man...😂

Yeah it belongs to splattermatic. Personally I think the worthless thief FUBAR'd it or sold it to somebody else.

This mornings 2.5 hrs of work / mods on the buttstock.
Got rid of the sharp angled lines.
Hit the outline on the checkering, opened it up some more.
Modified the hump transistion on top of the pistol grip along the comb. It was pretty pronounced before.
Modified the heel line and bottom of the pistol grip for installation of a basic black pistol grip cap, which it dont come from mossberg with.
Just think it will be a good match with the black recoil pad.

Go to a LGS later today, rat fugg thru his bin of caps with buttstock in hand.
Pick out 2 or 3 that catch the eye.
Get em home, sand ta fit, predrill screw hole.
Probably use a brushed stainless steel flat tip screw.

So, which one of those is the Batphone?

Look at the hand cheese and grime in those remote control buttons. 😀

Motel 6 lookin chit.

I want to see a slimmed wrist.

Yep, put a Rem 700 Mtn Rifle pattern on my Ruger 77 MKII stock.

Nah, Motel 6 is a high falutin’ place.
They steam clean those. Never know when some vegan milf gonna mix up her sperm smoothie. You know she don’t wash her hands after milkin’ ol’ Buford for his seed.

I did that with my tanger M-77 in 270. It was one of those from the chubby stock era

Buford

lol

Dang, I didn’t just accidentally dox you did I?
If so, I’m sorry. Well kinda sorry anyway

Not in the plan at all.
Have large hands.
A 10° spacer plate between the stock and butt pad is being thought of from midsouthshooterssupply down the road.
Gun comes up fine, but I think I need just a little bit more of the forward 1/3 rd of the rib to plane out level just a little more.

Shoot it with it and without it once done.
7 bucks well spent
Or 7 bucks in the parts box.

Start an eddie Haskell thread

I had a bullfrog named Buford, till our tomcat killed it.

Man, them cats are fuukers.
He knew you liked Buford, so he killed him.

Sounds like the first line of a hit song!

Mineral spirits bath / cleaning
Rough idea of what It will come out like.
Dry up over next couple hours to regular hue.
Aint gonna do a diluted staining to match the overall difference.
Good to go how it is, appeals to my eye.
Be interesting grain and highlights to look at when bored on the dove field...
Lol!!

Lack of sunlight sucks...
It does look good to me.
Do a very very light 320 sand when dry later today.
Nother clean with mineral spirits.
Let dry overnight.
Tape up the checkering
Hit it with a tack cloth.
Start getting 25/ 75 tru oil and mineral spirits penetration coats to it.

Forearm wiped down.
Poor light...

Buttstock wiped down.
Poor light....

Got a cigg a 2” ash hangin off, while your fanning that rag around with mineral spirits??

Looks great.

Aint no more machine cut 90° angles.
No more blocky look overall.
Pistol grip cap area made the factory dont do.
Nice clear defined outline around the checkering now.
Also gives a better feel in grip. JMO.

I like the rounded and contoured lines way better than the robo machine look it had.


Work in progress.

LOL!!!
Hosed down the area for about 5 mins afterwards.
Then smoked one.
Let all that Captain Planet run off go where the fugg ever.
Rain today .
Should eventually make it down slope to the d bag neighbors garden.

Lol!!!

Do you get beat up shooting doves with a 12 gauge?

Wearing my bowling shoes and johnny knoxville sweat pants.
Lol!!!

No.

Good recoil pad.
Decent weight gun with good pitch on the butt stock recoiling straight into your shoulder properly.
Not an issue.
Gas guns "absorb" recoil also.

Syn stock light weight guns.
Add weight in buttstock like I always have and good pad.

I always wondered about that.


For what ever reason....it seems like a 20 gauge, especially one for "kids" kicks like hell.


There just does not seem to be a way to start a kid with a shotgun....unless they were of monstrous size like me at 6 years old.

Is that the neighbor that jacks off with the curtains open?

One ounce of eights isn't likely to beat anybody up, no matter what gun you are using or how many times you shoot, assuming decent gun fit.

I ran a box thru prior to the pad mod I did.
Then ran another after.
Big felt difference after when the pad had waaaay more give.
Went out back in feb walked about a mile of RR tracks whacking birds. I know, I know the horror of it all and totally illegal whacking precious little birdy,s....
Shot 3 boxes that day lol!!!
Lots of feathered carnage.
Yotes and coons had a smorgasbord along that stretch of track.

I'm a dik and a bird murderer.
Hawks got a pass though.
I like hawks.

It was a John J Audubon day.
Lots of variety on the wing.
Too early in the year for hummers to be around though.
LOL!!!

lol

I got a bruise the size of a cantaloupe from just dove loads.

Never used to happen, not even a blemish with 3-1/2” turkey loads and Slapberg 835, even on patterning trials

Till I got pancytopenia

Nope the one with the 2 dookie eating german shepards.

Whack off boy had the fear of god put in him.

Classic the day I called the law on him and his dad was their visiting also.

Explain that schit away dumb azz.


Lol!!

Good recoil pad.

Buy a pitch spacer.
1/ 8 th inch at 1st
Or maybe 1/ 4 th inch
They are slanted and reversible for pos or neg pitch.
Neg is rarley needed.

You can loosen up the pad stick 1 or 2 or 3 quarters in top of pad.
Shoot it and check for recoil straight into shoulder by observing the person.
Then install approx correct thickness pitch spacer after.

Chances are you need positive pitch on it to get the recoil straight into the shoulder instead of bucking up into the cheek bone.

Kids and women also tend to stand straight up into a gun instead of slightly forward into the gun.
Why they get bit sometimes also.

JMO....

All those meds your on dont help either for bruising.

Tagged for interest. Really looking good so far.

good looking walnut hiding under the Moss.

It’s looking good Ren.
Nice wood, better more pleasing lines.
It ought to be a pleasure to gaze at while in the dove fields. Just don’t forget to watch for incoming.

Lol

Incoming

ptsd flare up in a dove field

Well, I was referring to incoming doves.
Aren’t they dangerous and dive bomb after being shot at?
Somehow I see Ren being portrayed by Ben Stiller in the movie version.

I can get off 3 rds pretty fast.
LOL!!!
Have had idle talk at end of day with people occasionally
"You hear that fella on the feild shooting really really fast at times"?

LOL!!!

Prep for penetration coats.
25 truoil 75 mineral spirits
3 coats each peice in around 30 mins
Brush gets thrown away $1.67
Wood sucks it fast at this point
3 coats is where it is at now

Let em "dry" about 4 hrs
Hit em another 3 times with a new brush
6 penetration coats might do it depending on wood density.
Forearm and buttstock are of different densities.
Might have ta work on one more than the other at times to balance finish.
Checkering will dull out more and be around 90% after these intial 6 coats.
It will get taped off for other steps with wiping cloth applications and sandings.
Then ratio will go to 50/50.
The mineral spirits help the finish lay down and evaporate.
Which allows thin coats to be apllied
Bout 2 to 3 days of drying between most of the rest of the steps I do.

Just my way of doing stuff guys.
YMMV with what works for you.

Looking real good. Keep updating as you go.... I'm learning here.

Do you rub them between coats?

The grain in the wood does look like it should pop.

Be awhile before reduction and build up coats.
Repeat.

15 to 20 thin coats eventually when done.

Bout every 3 to 4 coats
Light Buff out with 4 ot steel wool
Hit with a tack cloth
Rinse with mineral spirits
Light sand with 600 and 800 dry
Rinse with mineral spirits with a soft tooth brush scrub


3 to 4 applicatims of cut tru oil again with 3 to 4 hr "drying"
Between

2 to 3 day drying after
Repeat.
Also alot of taping and covering of checkering at stages in the process.
The mineral spirits baths also aid in any tape residue removal.
Which can be a PITA if you dont pay attention to it well especially in the border outline.


When done.
Let "cure"2 to 3 weeks inside and outside.
Finish still hardens up over 3 4 5 months


Its a build up process.
Eventually it will hit a point where the final 2 wiping coats
Can be put on after the last reduction has been done
I like a grain look.
Those last couple of wiping coats will not be rubbed off to a "dry"
Most of the wiping coats I put on are wiped till I feel the drag Im comfortable knowing.
Its a feel thing
Too heavy the coat really does nothing cause ya took to much away.
Too light and you leave too much on and gravity causes it to sag , run or glacier on it when you set it to dry.


Everybody has different ways.
Some worry about steel wool issues embedded in the finish.
I do the mineral spirit rinses and 600 and 800 sanding to address that.


Its basically doing what works for you.

It's important to use a good tape to cover checkering.
And put it in a container between each use to keep any dust from settling on its edges.
Wiping cloth pick it up off the tape and migrate it into your coats.
PITA correcting that by doing another total reduction proces espeically on last finishing coats when ya notice it.

BTDT long long ago.

Coming along!

With that brown painted cinder block wall, it looks like your doing this in some old barracks!

Work-Release program,

craft, projects- (Moral-Welfare-Recreational Division) of the county jail

Man cave.
Paid my middle daughter and her boyfriend when they was in college yrs ago.
12.50 an hour apeice ta paint the wall.
5 hours.
Also paid em ta scrape up the old tile off the concrete floor.
4 hrs on that one.

Think I mixed what I had on hand and came with 2 or 3 gallons of that " color".

Lol!!!

Shhhhhhh.
These guys dont know that schit.

Still wonder who dailed me and my grow op in.......

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.

It will hit a diminishing return point grain enhancement wise.
The eye will know.
It's still on the gain side at least for 2 more cycles.
# 21 or 22 finish coat will be around the mark.

2 wiping coats.
Flash makes it look horrible and gaudy as fugg.

Can already tell its gonna need ta dry 2 or 3 days.
Do process again for coats 18-19ish.
Carefully pull this tape in about 4 hrs when I can handle them lightly.

2 days drying time.
Give it 1 more day before repeating process for application of coats 18 19 ish
Scrub checkering outline with toothbrush and mineral spirits.
Got some faint tape residue that the camera picked up.
Pic in overcast sky.




Slightly different angle.

Taped up and ready for 2 coats 18 19 ish
Matte and shine showing in light angle equal high and low spots per 800 sanding.
Normal.....

Its getting close.
Might actually be done and just need a mineral spirits soaked paper bag rub down in 2 or 3 days
Give the checkering a mineral spirits tooth brushing also

Got 3 light wiping coats on it
So its around 20 or 21 ish coats applied and the sanding reductions
The 3 steps forward , 2 steps back process.

Last one was about 20 mins ago after the 1st 2 were put on an hour prior.
Take the tape off in about 3 or 4 hours
Flash makes it look like crap in the pic.

Lookin good Renegade! I like

Still a mossberg 930.
Making da turd shine!!!

No one use,s em for anything ever....
LOL!!!

Lol!!! Looking back thru this thread...

I got a red baron in the freezer.
Gonna do it up right.
Extra pepperoni
Thin cut slices of extra sharp cheddar
Chop up a few peices of sandwich ham.
Couple grind passes of sea salt
Couple grind passes of pepper.

Bake 14 mins at 400
2 mins on broil to get the pepperoni crunchy on outside edges of it.

Tamp a paper towel on it when done to get the grease off the top


Food of da Gawds......

Lol!!!

Calling it done.....
20 21 ish coats
Let dry for a couple days.
Then clean up the checkering for any tape residue with a toothbrush and mineral spirits
And a good rub down over all with a mineral spirit soaked paper bag for minuscule nibs and imperfections.
Then indoor outdoor drying/ hardening to VO2/truoil shrinkage and harden up more..
And a wool cloth rub down and assembly in 7 to 14 days.
Then let shotgun sit in a corner up right for a couple weeks or so and into a case.
Finish needs to harden up for 2 or 3 months total for full durabilty.
But the gun can be used during that entire time.
Just gotta be aware finish is still " soft".
Just a dove/ squirrel gun.
Not like its is gonna be abused anyways...

Indoor pic with glare


Outdoor pic with glare in the shade.
One of the things I like about Black walnut.
Always changes appearance,s in different light and angles.
Always something to see different in it.

Project done ...

Another thread

Plus 1 on post count...
LOL!!!