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Teak Oil Refinish Question

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#1 ·
I am refinishing the stock with teak oil; have read the previous posts some as old as 2007 - with good info in them; I read the teak oil can directions but it does not address multiple coats very well ...

The first couple coats it soaked it in pretty good, 24 hrs minimum between coats. Now on third coat.

Question: In between coats of teak oil do I gently go over it with Fine Steel wool?? If yes, do it in-between coats for all 20 coats or stop at 18 or 19 coats ...

Note for others after me: For anyone else going to do teak oil it seems to take a long time to dry the Teak oil - second coat I let dry for 48 hrs but 24 seems to be the absolute minimum needed
 
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I get home and re-read the e-mail and it says make sure to take it to an authorized shipping center... So I check online and nope the place I took it to was not an "Authorized" center

so I went today an hour before the driver was supposed to come and pick it up to make sure it got on the truck.

they Did pick up today even though a holiday.

So now I track it again and pray that they don't lose it .
 
#30 ·
Nice SA lady calls me back and says today, oops I forgot to tell you that we insured it for full price but only showed $ 100. so that no one would see it and steal it if insured for more.
 
#31 ·
Oh, but there is more to this story ....
 
#32 ·
Thursday afternoon I do an online complaint to the US Postal Inspector General about my box addressed to a gun place being missing in FLA.....

So Fedex box to SAI sits over the weekend and then it is MLK Holiday - I find out that FEDEX will pick up on Monday - so I go watch the driver load it into his truck and drive away

Tuesday noon - The lady from Wenig Custom Gun Stocks calls me and says - It is here ... I ask what is here ..... she says your gun stock.

OK I am shocked, having been "Untrackable for 12 days" lost in FLA and it made it without being tracked anywhere all the way to Missouri !!!!!
I guess the e-mail complaint hit the right desk and there was some kind a shaking going on at the post office.

After a minute of jubilee I realized that I was about to own 2 complete stocks and pay another $720.00 but I didn't need two.

I get on the phone with Fedex to cancel the shipment of the action & barrel; they said they would catch it at the next stop...... they didn't went thru Tn and showed up next day in Illinois, Springfield is in IL; so I call them and explain, but warn them in case FEDEX did not stop it not to accept.
Fedex delivers and SAI says No - return; so I wait and track it for 5 more days; it arrives the only day that I have a Dr appt..... but at least I got it back.

Then ...
 
#33 ·
I wait until following Monday to hear back from Wenig about the stock
( I think they were at the shot show in Las Vegas.)

So I think maybe I have them make me a laminate stock ( see their webpage) They have one called Natural and Black that I Really like....
I ask if they have everything they would need and they so No we need a magazine well; So I call SAI and they say they don't sell them seperately.

Call Wenig back and they say they would mess up the stock trying to get it out, since it is glass bedded in. I can't do that to a nice walnut M21 stock.

So I think about it a day or two and order the new cheek-piece and wood handguard only and will use my stock and keep the cheek-piece as one of my dumb souveneirs to remind me ..... but

There is a 5-6 week wait to get orders done ( I should have guessed it would not end yet )
So sometime in March I may be able to shoot the rifle I bought in December, if all goes well.
 
#35 ·
I hope they fired the person but

The post Office did not tell me what happened / why it was lost for 12 days and not tracked ......
 
#37 ·
I am glad it came in .

It also would have been Nice to have it tracked on the final part of the trip - but I guess the Pony Express guy did not have his laptop with him to let me know how it got to the old west.
 
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