Member rotie3
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ElkHamr… May be the Tung oil drying so hard has something to do with it. Glad for your success with the stocks.
Larry
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Sask/Ab… I would find out what type of finish Tikka uses on their stocks before I did anything to it. This will tell you what you need to do/use on
it.Larry
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ElkHamr… How long have you been spraying lacquer over oil? How has this finish held up in use for you? I've been building cabinets and furniture for 30+years and lacquer over oil is not a recommended practice. The instructions on lacquer cans state this. You want a clean wood surface to start with. Then sanding sealer is applied in several coats to fill the pores of the wood, lightly sanding between coats and then apply the lacquer in as many coats as to satisfy yourself. When and if you have trouble with your system you would have to strip the whole stock to start over… you can't patch lacquer. The Tung oil is the hardest oil known to man… very durable. When you notice wear on a tung oil finish you just give the stock another coat… no stripping ;-).
Larry
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Thx for the reply, Larkin…
I didn't mean to imply otherwise. Most of the other forums I frequent are held together with very well informed people. What I am most surprised by is the overall lack of technical info available from Tikka about their rifles. They give us the standard weight, barrel length, finish, etc. and that's about it. Hard to find much more.Larry
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This is some of the types of specifications/tech info I am trying to locate on these rifles. The company sure doesn't have much out there. Maybe this type of limited info works in their country but we want MORE.
Larry
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That's what I thought… There ain't much of it out there… Coulpe of things I was lookin' for is the muzzle diameters of the different models and trigger interchangability between models. Larry
