Recently picked up a pretty clean 99 in 300 at a local gunshow. Had the usual flaking varnish on the stock so I refinished the wood and ended up with a nice little 22" barreled rifle for the money. Fits in with the other DL's just fine. Hard to pass up a clean DL. I know most of you guys hate em. LOL.

Geez Roy, I think you officially qualify as the west coast armory for the 99. Nice work!

Roy, nice job, nice grain in the buttstock. I dont hate them ,just like older models better !!

Whats your wood finish of choice these days?

This is tung oil sanded between coats (lost track of # of coats) then steel wooled and waxed with renaissance wax at the end.

Came

Came out damn nice! Four hundred bucks and a little elbow grease and ya get a great gun.

looks nice and I don't even like 99's

What did you use to remove the varnish that didn't effect the color?

What did you use to remove the varnish that didn't effect the color?

Nice work Roy! I just got through refinishing a PO Ackley mauser in 30-06 IMP.

I use a paste stripper to remove all varnish and stain first before any sanding.

Savage had some crappy finishes back in the 60's. This 1965 double diamond is next.

Nice work Roy!

Anyone know what the factory used that was obviously so inferior??

Great Job Roy! very nice grain in that stock!

Nice Job, I like the DL’s

must have been the same stuff GM used for primer back in the 90s!

now there is the truth! call my 94 Silverado my appaloosa truck.

Great work, Roy.
Looks great!

Roy did good, didn't he?!

It’s really nice!

If I ever get a tattoo it's going to be basket weave double checkering.

I thought you were going to say if you ever got a tattoo you were going to have Roy do it!

Looks good!

Did a similar job on a 1963 Remington 700 243 carbine stock with pressed checkering and their Dupont "bowling ball" epoxy finish.

Stripped it and used multiple coats of Tung oil to high light the grain. Prefer the look of a hand rubbed oil finish on that era of gun.

Awesomeness

That really looks nice!

Wow!!!!! Beautiful work. You've got me thinking about doing the same on the stock of my 1957 Winchester 88. The finish is peeling.

Thanks for the info and inspiration!


T.S.

Nice rifle and a heck of a deal. That rifle would be close to if not double the price here.I have always been a fan of the DL's

I had a single shot 16 gauge that looked just like that. I was about 12 and stripped it to bare wood. Don't know what they had on it to make it look brown, but underneath was the most beautiful Birdseye Maple you had ever seen.I had never seen a Birdseye Maple stock until I saw Roger's and Don's, and that one of course.

I have a 284 DL with that double diamond

I found one of those a few years ago as well. I wondered if it might be the only one! I've since gotten a .243, 300, and 308 all double diamond. Not real common.

I had never seen a double diamond until I got that 284

Great job on that rifle Fireball. Looks a lot better than the flaking finish for sure and for me would increase it's value . I've never seen the "double diamond" checkering till this thread. I like it better than the basket weave design. Mom said I had to learn something new everyday, so I guess i'm done.

Nice work...any before pictures?

No, didn't think to take any on that one. Just worked on it the last two weeks as the flu allowed so wasn't real sharp.

U wanting any canned cervidae? FB2 heading your way some time next month I figure.

You bet. Gunna be moving about the time you head this way.